| 单词 | distorted |
| 例句 | They shouldn’t have been able to fit inside those human-sized doors, but as the Cyclopes got close, their bodies distorted and shrank, the Doors of Death sucking them inside. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Barack, for his part, took it more in stride than I did, having already seen in Springfield how nasty politics could get and how the truth was so often distorted to serve people’s political aims. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Light through the open transom fell on the ceiling fan, casting distorted shadows of the four motionless blades against the opposite wall. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But they marched up like a phantom company, grey distorted figures in a mist, only dreams of fear with pale flames in their hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She tried to count the days since she was first arrested, but her loneliness, the darkness, and her fear distorted her sense of time and space. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The ice reflected his distorted shadow and the beam of wandlight, but deep below the thick, misty gray carapace, something else glinted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They crackle, distorted by the microphones, but I know my father’s voice; I can hear it shift at all the right times, lift in all the right places. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The muddy river distorted and widened, kept us helpless in the groove of its central channel, pulling and pulling. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The voice was faint and distorted, as though impeded by something like a bubble, some mucus in her throat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the distorted cosmology of the Afrikaner, the Nationalist victory was like the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Genes, phenotypes, selection, and evolution were bound together by cords of relatively basic laws—but it was easy to imagine that these laws could be misunderstood and distorted. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The voice sounds so crackled and distorted from the speakers that there are parts I can’t understand. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z One other noteworthy event occurred while Galileo was a medical student in Pisa, although the story has been considerably distorted and embellished down the centuries. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “No?” the man roared, his face so distorted with anger he looked more like an animal than a man, his teeth glittering in the flickering torchlight. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The sound the bell made was nearly as excruciating as the White Noise, its pitch stretched and distorted by the dream. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Wintergreen, who also wanted to be a general and who always distorted, destroyed, rejected or misdirected any correspondence by, for or about Colonel Cathcart that might do him credit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z At forty- four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The ghost’s face distorted in a silent scream of agony, but his eyes looked bored, even a little annoyed, as if the scream was just an automatic reflex he couldn’t control. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her and then, with malice, patched her together badly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The images in them were distorted and two-dimensional; gigantic, flat knights peered out of tiny, misshapen castles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He noted the distorted look of Kelly’s right eye as it appeared through his watchmaker’s loupe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was a map of the world, and it wrinkled and distorted itself hotly and went—flimpf— and was gone like a warm, black butterfly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I set my hands on the lab table, letting it cool my palms, and look at my distorted reflection in the brushed metal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Ripples in the faceplate of her head bubble distorted the view, as if she was in a house of mirrors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Olive saw his goggled face and the slip stream caught his word and distorted it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He scanned the other faces—some were too swollen and distorted in death to identify. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The blurred child staring back at me looks hollow and distorted, not at all like the little girl in Phnom Penh whose neighbors called her “ugly.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought too much driving had distorted my vision or addled my judgment, for the dark earth below seemed to move and pulse and breathe. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Their separate stares, captured forever in distorted laughter, met and locked at the point of the hall where the vicious cold centered. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He takes off his glasses and tucks them in his shirt so I can see my distorted reflection in the mirrored lenses. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Now that we were away from Camp Half-Blood, the Mist had distorted his face again. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I go up the stairs, my face, distant and white and distorted, framed in the hall mirror, which bulges outward like an eye under pressure. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The memory was milky and distorted, like I was glimpsing someone else’s dream. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The illustrations were done in black and white—distorted, rubbery figures clutched each other or screamed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “Taking something real and sort of stretching it out like a piece of taffy into a thing that’s true but distorted. You know. Like old lady Henley’s face-lift.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z In another instant, his mouth was distorted into a horizontal figure-8, and he was crying mightily. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The sun was low, burning gold through the trees, casting our shadows before us on the ground, long and distorted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We see her desperately clasping her hands before her, her face distorted with the tension of the moment, then suddenly, dramatically, she lifts her hands high and closes her eyes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed unaware of what she did now; in the dim nocturnal light from outdoors Irmgard’s face had become distorted, astigmatic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “It has distorted her appearance savagely. Her mind remains human and intact, but her body is that of a beast and will remain so until the splendor is extracted from her.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Her face was horribly distorted, her lips blue. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z With their distorted, lice-infested figures and captions of hate, they made it seem permissible, even proper, to attack a Jew even if he differed from the poster portrayal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She still occasionally dreamed of his distorted face and the guttural screams. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught a glimpse of his face in the moonlight, caked in mud and distorted with fury, then I reached for his flailing arms and held on tight. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Faces are distorted, arms strike out, and the beasts scream; we just stop in time to avoid attacking one another. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Listen to this: “The dynamic interstices of the Harlem sub-culture have been oversimplified and distorted by Malcolm X to meet his own needs.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the distorted black space around what had really been. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The television screen flickered; its picture grew distorted. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A thick, blobby form, multiple arms, two big glaring eyes distorted by the glass into huge saucer orbs, the stuff of nightmares. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z My memories were distorted by twenty-five intervening years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably the ruffians of that time so marked innocent people as a cruel joke and the practice had persisted down through the centuries to be distorted into a meaningless Halloween prank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face was distorted with pain, as if the Minotaur were still squeezing her neck. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He stared at me—we were so close that I could see my distorted reflection in his large Ray-Bans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The heat rising from the oil burner chimneys across the highway distorted and magnified it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I saw faces, bloated and distorted, rise up from the murky surface. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Dispute over Copernicanism was distorted by the intervention of the theologians, but the dispute over physics could take place without such interference. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The walls were lined with bookshelves containing badly preserved volumes with the bindings crumbling and flaking, or distorted with damp. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother and Father have a distorted sense of normalcy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z They study me with faces too distorted in the curved glass to recognize. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Nok's father's mouth distorted into a frown and he looked over his shoulder at the West Side with contempt. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z That he distorted life, bent it, for the sake of gain, was a measure of his loss at his father’s death. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The Godel solution and the cosmic string space-time start out so distorted that travel into the past was always possible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A blubbered and distorted face confronted her; the creature was crying. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Up at the top of the map, distorted into odd, huge shapes, were Australia and New Zealand, also member provinces of the Region. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes the view of change is distorted by a change in oneself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a movement—everything was vague and distorted through the rippling water—and the door opened. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We recognize the smooth distorted faces, the helmets; they are French. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His face had a strange elasticity: It would be slack and expressionless one minute, only to twist suddenly into a gaping, oversize grin that distorted his features and exposed a mouthful of horsy teeth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They listened to a country radio station turned up so loud that the twangs of steel guitars were distorted in the Hearse's old speakers. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Squares on the floor become trapezoids in a painting; everything gets gently distorted, but it looks perfectly natural to the viewer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Voices echoed down the passage ahead of them, but they were too distorted to understand. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z By the time the body was discovered, its features had been distorted well beyond recognition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And Kino heard the music of the pearl, distorted and insane. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the locket’s two windows, out of the eyes, there bloomed, like two grotesque bubbles, the heads of Harry and Hermione, weirdly distorted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, in both cases, science was deliberately distorted to support state-sponsored mechanisms of “cleansing.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Iofur’s armor was in a pitiful state by this time, the plates torn and distorted, the gold inlay torn out or smeared thickly with blood, and his helmet gone altogether. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I heard Mr. Jordan’s vague, distorted sounds of victory. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The statues threw horrible distorted shadows onto the ceiling, because all the light in the room came from the front. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Opening her eyes, she had seen his face—no, not his face, a ferocious stranger’s, pale, distorted, twitching with some insane, inexplicable fury. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His works wrenched and distorted, as if painted through neurosis. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the configuration of the galaxies can be distorted severely. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The laugh's distorted, but the fact that it registered at all means I must be regaining my hearing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The heartburn brought tears to his eyes, so that his image of Campbell was distorted by jiggling lenses of salt water. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face—as beautiful as a blooming flower to him now—was distorted with a new kind of torture, the tissues serenely swollen, her half-closed eyes misty and unseeing with the stultifying languor of desire. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z P.M. spoke, though his words were distorted by the spoon in his mouth. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And if the patient is having heart trouble, the pattern will be distorted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Clouds of smoke unfurled beneath the wide green rims as the leaves darkened and withered in the flames, their words becoming faint distorted lines before they turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The only light came from the hall, and Coraline, who was standing in the doorway, cast a huge and distorted shadow onto the drawing room carpet—she looked like a thin giant woman. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z His face was huge, shiny, and pink, every feature distorted by Hermione’s jinx. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z To those watching by the first line of cabins Blake’s face distorted in surprise and worry, that of a man stumbling into a kingdom of hornets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A little later he came back on and rasped in a slow, horribly distorted voice, “Hi, my sweetheart. I hope you’re tucked up in a nice warm bed. How are you doing?” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Through the plastic, behind the dirty lumps, the doctors face slid into a distorted smile. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was the scream of light from the big bang, stretched and distorted into a whisper's hiss. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It is true,” said Archimedes reflectively, “that all the corvidae have a distorted sense of humour.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z None of our ancestors, as far as I could tell from our distorted history, had ever been shackled and considered chattel, bred and traded like cattle, as the ancestors of the American black had been. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But inside the quiet young scholar there existed a second, unsuspected personality, one with stunted emotions and a distorted mind through which cold thoughts flowed in cruel directions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She never had to learn things in a distorted way. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Lilian’s favorite piece, the Moonlight Sonata, floated through the darkness, eerie, distorted, out of tune. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z But she did know that the square white door was distorted by tears and that her body shook with something that felt like rage and also felt like sorrow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But old attitudes and distorted stubborn impressions of my father outlived Arnold Perl and James Baldwin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The general rise in affluence had obscured the traditional class markers and distorted the old class-based political alignments. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The voice coming from the shivering, twitching body sounded distorted. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “At least forty people...lie dead..., their bodies burned and distorted.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It barely even registered that the music, distorted by the narrow corridor into thick, echoing noise, was “Scar Tissue,” one of my favorite tunes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z This last piece of physical business has been so distorted by the press over the years that it has entered the “Bobby Fischer Urban Legend Storybook” as proof of his “insanity.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Nothing warped seemed bizarre any more in his strange, distorted surroundings. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Over the next week and a half telegrams shot from city to city, engineer to engineer, until the story became somewhat distorted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As if the world had become horribly distorted while she was among the trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Crow stiffened as she stared at her distorted reflection in the shining silver. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, what’s wrong with it?” said Harry, grabbing a spoon and squinting at his distorted reflection. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Life gets blurry, distorted, stretched out, balled up. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He reminded me of Wab that day back at the Four Winds: distorted somehow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Her skirt seemed to gather in a distorted picture of the dragon in the window—or not really distorted, but an image that was alive. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The images were being distorted before they reached the telescope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The accounts of the initial encounters between Indians and Europeans are windows into the past, even if the glass is smeared and distorted by the chroniclers’ prejudices and misapprehensions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The terrific acceleration of the saucer as it left Earth twisted Billy’s slumbering body, distorted his face, dislodged him in time, sent him back to the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she set her sights on the front gates, and as she got closer and closer a new band started up and distorted music swallowed us all whole. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z For about ten seconds, I catch a distorted glimpse of Thresh's picture and then he's gone. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They created dark ness in the middle of day, and shadows that distorted the path and made him stumble from time to time on roots and rocks. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Her voice, faintly distorted over the crackling intercom, was neutral. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Well, of course, we both know how these stories get distorted...all these whispers of a prophecy...of you being ‘the Chosen One’...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The palace grounds beyond looked distorted, as if we were peering through frosted glass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The silence hissed in her ears and her vision was faintly distorted—her hands in her lap appeared unusually large and at the same time remote, as though viewed across an immense distance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z What might have been a simple cry of the word “No” is distorted into something greater by the wind as Celia screams. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It’s just makeup, Fred,” I said, my voice a little distorted from my chin being pressed up into the air. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Even as she said this, her face was distorted with as much agony as horror. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The glass windows I pass reflect a distorted vision of myself—face elongated, dark jeans stretched too long, black gloves, beat-up boots, faded red scarf wrapped around my black hoodie. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “No way to be sure. For all I know, this is a unique occurrence. Her memories of mortality are apparently distorted, if she retains them at all.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The news reporter, meanwhile, had vanished from the distorted picture, replaced by a cheerful-looking weather forecaster, but it continued to be the child’s voice they heard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z My own reflection, unspooled and distorted in the dark liquid, was a stranger to me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her body was swollen and distorted and he couldn’t look at her without wincing inwardly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare straight ahead at the reflective metal decorations lining the stairwell, at the distorted reflections of Ollie and me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands flapped overhead, her mouth a dark hole, a distorted circle of abuse. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Then images appeared in my mind, weak and distorted, as if the transmission were being disrupted at the source. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We don’t often think about the role of time in life-or-death situations, perhaps because Hollywood has distorted our sense of what happens in a violent encounter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Her face was distorted as she stamped her high heels and screamed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the water in the glass, I see a distorted image of one of Peeta’s hands. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Sometimes she tried to think of other things, even unpleasant ones, to drive the pain and the distorted fingers from her mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Kehaar’s speech was so outlandish and distorted at the best of times that it was only too common for the rabbits to be unsure what he meant. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice sounds deep and distorted in this cavern. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The more massive the object that is sitting on the sheet, the more the sheet gets distorted, and the larger the dimple around that object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They look weird, stretched out, as if distorted through some sort of circus mirror. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “How could I be better for any of this?” he asked, horrified at how distorted and liquid his words sounded, as if he were speaking through the blowhole of a whale. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z McNeish pried nails from Endurance’s distorted decking and made a stockpile of scrap lumber, including the lumber that had been meant for the expedition's winter hut. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z With a distorted countenance he stared into the water. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But even though I wasn’t looking at Diego, I felt the pull of him, the way he distorted everything around him so I didn’t know what was right or real anymore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I was lying on my bed, where I’d been for two weeks, when she appeared in the doorway, wavy and distorted, as if I were looking at her through a pool of water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In memory, distorted by a child’s sense of time, it had always seemed the length of a Shakespeare play. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the morning a rumor ran through the town, distorted here and there, added to, but by afternoon the story clarified. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The following year, in July 1955, a return match in Moscow was even more distorted in favor of the Soviets: The Americans lost again, this time 25–7. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Aspects settle temporarily and then vanish into distorted shadows once more, never remaining steady for more than a moment. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Faces of my teachers, distorted with my exhaustion, saying over and over, “Sparrow is going to repeat eighth grade” and “Sparrow hasn’t done work in months” and “What’s wrong with your daughter, Ms. Cooke?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z In my sketchbook I tiy to draw my ankles distorted by pond water, but they don’t look warped and interesting. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so short that Alex’s first impression was that he was looking at a reflection that had somehow been distorted. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z A single scream, so loud and distorted that it didn’t seem to come from a human throat, tore the night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And suddenly I knew something was wrong and distorted and out of drawing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The accent was strange and guttural, the speech distorted. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been a special now for over a year, and not merely in regard to the distorted genes which he carried. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t simply reason that as vulnerable as the Nation of Islam was to distorted rumors and outright lies, we needed nothing so little as to have our public spokesman constantly denying the rumors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Some remaining windows, ones in which the colored glass had shattered, were now paned in a thick, ordinary glass that distorted the view through bubbles and ripples. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The cut-glass panes of the living room cabinet prism my reflection into a dozen distorted pieces. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z These fellows whose bodies seemed—what had one of my teachers said of me?—"You're like one of these African sculptures, distorted in the interest of a design." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But her voice seemed to slow down, stretched out and distorted all crazy in my ears. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z She could tell that her communiques were being distorted by influences beyond her control and that the message received never resembled the one she had sent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For one moment I glimpsed howling, sweating, red-and-white faces, distorted into hideous masks of hatred and cruelty, a sea of demon heads that bobbed restlessly outside our store. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine we live in a three-dimensional universe, locally distorted by matter into a fourth physical dimension that we cannot perceive directly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as space gets distorted close to a massive object, time does, too. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His face distorted with pain, he grabbed her by the hair and hauled her in front of him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z For a variety of reasons, both blacks and whites distorted the nature of this black success story and its significance to other African-Americans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A thin ray of sun struck the prisms of a candelabrum on the mantelpiece, throwing brilliant, trembling shards of light that were distorted by the slant of the dormer walls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The shadows before him bent and became distorted. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was then I realized how cruelly I had judged her, how my perception of her had been distorted, because I’d been looking at her through my father’s harsh lens. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A buttermilk white eye distorted by the light rays. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z All around me the JumboTrons blare their colorful campaigns, the sound of their ads distorted and jolty from the city speakers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I glance at a silver plate on the wall, which shows only a distorted and blurred image of myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The windows and my grogginess had distorted their features. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It features compressed and distorted images, such as the texture of an animal's fur, or the pavement. Experimental film "Erēmīta" is an inventive & vivid celebration of our pandemic hermitage life 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z How have you negotiated the reality of those years with your role in "Stranger Things" and the heavy nostalgia and grossly distorted view of the Reagan years it depicts? Matthew Modine on America's love affair with guns & what people get wrong about "Full Metal Jacket" 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z The orthochromatic film used in the twenties distorted natural shades: reds and yellows showed up dark and blues hardly showed at all. Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z According to him, the established churches had distorted and polluted God’s messages over time. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z Certainly German philosophy was distorted by madmen just as Christianity has been in the past, but atheists fool themselves if they try to differentiate the two. What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z She’s soon swaddled in distorted funk tones suggestive of Prince – as seen through a shattered mirror. Aphex Twin's 'Syro': A labyrinthine EDM gem 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Through a spokesman, Meghan and Harry decried the stories as “distorted several-year-old accusations” packaged together as part of a “smear campaign” intended to harm their reputations ahead of their interview with Oprah. More Than You Need to Know About Harry, Meghan and Oprah 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z Sullivan reached for a bigger rock ’n’ roll sound on the swampy blues of “Tom Cat” and the distorted “Amos.” Jim Sullivan, a Rock ’n’ Roll Mystery That Remains Stubbornly Unsolved 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z After surveying their distorted bodies and their impossible reflections in mirrors, my eye wanders off to the framing apparatuses of lavish curtains and valance. Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The works looked polished yet handmade, whole yet distorted. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z An overture, powered by distorted electric guitar and staccato strings, accompanies this sooty B-movie-style image. Review: A B-Movie Starlet Becomes an Opera Diva in ‘Acquanetta’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Would it feel like their cultures were, once again, being borrowed and distorted to make someone else’s point? Review: ‘The Minutes,’ an Official History of American Horror 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Viewers familiar with similarly distorted objects made by Robert Lazzarini, among others, will be unimpressed. Art Review: ‘Lightness of Being’ Group Show at City Hall Park 2013-08-22T22:01:07Z She’s got this insincere kindness upfront, but then I get wind of the gossip … the things I speak in love that get distorted, twisted, turned and then gossiped about. Is my brother a pedophile? 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Wispy vocals are further distorted to sound even smaller and more vulnerable, creating a bittersweet dancing-through-tears vibe on “These Streets Will Never Look the Same.” Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z The film projections are often grainy and the sound distorted, yet the cinemas are packed. Burkina Faso stages Africa's film festival with a conscience 2013-03-01T11:24:52Z Maybe Ellis is one of very few novelists who can truly surrender to the gaze of his creations – however distorted their view might be. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z Hungry’s distorted drag is interested in the deep wells of the self, a dream sequence that expresses the alien within. Beyond the Drag Event Horizon 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Of course, while it's funny to see yourself looking distorted in a funhouse mirror, Cregger observed it's just depressing when that becomes an accurate reflection. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “It does feel like martial arts, the concept as it’s been distorted through a Western lens, is used to pigeonhole us, to make us feel smaller and to mock us,” Yu said. Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ jabs, flips Asian American film cliches 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z What’s interesting is to have a character whose prism was a bit distorted. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Showrunner Breaks Down the Series Premiere 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z We're all aware of the lethal dangers that happen when our history is overlooked, when the truth is distorted, when our story is not told in its entirety. "It's blood memory": Jurnee Smollett on how the horrors in "Lovecraft Country" are felt in real life 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The defense case continued Friday with testimony from Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine and well-known expert on memory who testified that memories could be distorted over time. Weinstein to call more defense witnesses as his rape trial nears end 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Eventually the feather boundary gets distorted, then destroyed altogether. Review: 'little hunger,' 'Entwine' need to cook a little longer 2010-05-28T16:49:00Z The choreography, credited to Fabian Aloise, is brilliantly dynamic, its exaggerated sexual innuendo rendered grotesque by the dancers’ distorted, over-it facial expressions. A Paris Cabaret Makes Way for ‘Cabaret’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z To watch Polanski's films is to be reminded of what produced their dazed brutality, those early experiences of the oppression of the weak that stole his innocence and distorted his sense of things. The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski's films 2012-12-28T22:55:16Z “Make My Head Sing ...” blasts those qualities away from the first notes of its opening song, “Oblivious”: loud, slow, unaccompanied, heavily distorted guitar chords, soon joined by an equally slow and deliberate drumbeat. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z When the music advances towards its inexorable conclusion, White's movements becomes distorted and hobbled, a piercing parallel of Nijinsky's retreat into madness. The Oracle – review 2013-06-02T15:30:01Z Her voice is distorted and slightly computerized in the verse, before giving way to a soaring chorus. Katy Perry Releases Surprise Single For 2016 Rio Olympics 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Melodies emerge from a grid of electronic glitches, Auto-Tuned vocals and distorted percussion. Album review: John Cale, 'Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood' 2012-10-02T17:48:00Z But when the distorted strumming starts, the explosive breakup is inevitable. Paramore Steps Into a New Era, and 8 More New Songs 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Like most of Mr. McDonagh’s Irish settings, Inishmaan is such an uneventful place that the most humdrum gossip inflates into big, distorted news. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Daniel Radcliffe as Cripple Billy 2013-06-27T17:08:49Z Set to a distorted breakbeat, the sound constantly shifts and changes: it's simultaneously hugely disorientating and hugely exciting. m b v – review 2013-02-04T18:22:24Z Last year, in acknowledgment that these practices distorted the charts’ “intended goal of accurately reflecting consumer intent,” Billboard stopped counting sales from those deals on its chart. Adele Is No. 1 With a Huge Week, but Without a Million in Sales 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The band Cults expanded the distorted cello of Mr. Russell’s “Being It” into a rock-guitar roar; “You Can Make Me Feel Bad” turned from a taunt into a cozy group-sing. Review: ‘Red Hot + Arthur Russell’ Pays Funky, Introspective Tribute to a Composer and Musician 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z It was a set full of stomping drumbeats and distorted guitar riffs carrying mostly declarations of woman trouble and other mental distress. Music Review: Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys at Madison Square Garden 2012-03-13T22:19:08Z Geffen sounds clear, clean and straightforward; there’s nothing distorted or echoing, no weird balances or flabby resonances. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z They are protective of a man whose views were often misunderstood or distorted in an effort to neutralize him and the movement, they said. Peniel E. Joseph on His Biography of Stokely Carmichael 2014-03-03T21:52:52Z Tuesday brought Mr. Bleckmann’s woozy, spacey lounge act, his airy voice distorted by electronic echo effects and little idiosyncrasies. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival, a Summer Camp for Singers 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z De Zotte is a true locals’ bar that captures all the vibrancy and character of Amsterdam, but is not distorted by catering to stereotypes for tourists. Probably the best bar in the world: readers' travel tips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Fleckenstein says one of the more subtle but meaningful changes Rubin made was to let Casablancas’ vocals — often distorted in previous outings — shine more clearly this time around. The Strokes turn to a ‘unicorn figure’ and get Grammy love 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Each story concentrates on a different "grotesque" who inhabits the town, people whose lives have become distorted through an inability to communicate. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z It is hard not to think that Darwin, worrying that someone would scoop him, subconsciously distorted Wallace’s paper into something that didn’t overlap much with his own thinking and, therefore, didn’t threaten him. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z He claims that distorted footage of one of his taped games in the film was altered. It Could Be Game Over for a Onetime King of Donkey Kong 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z It starts with a tinny music-hall bounce that swells into a rich, chunky rhythm, accented with a chirping, distorted vocal that sounds trippy and modern. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Sometimes their paths get so distorted that they enter the inner solar system. What really wiped out the dinosaurs: “It’s only when you have large aggregations of dark matter that it can have this enormous effect” 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z In “Woody’s Airstream,” he goes to town with the distorted reflective surfaces of a recreational trailer. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z To illustrate that theme, the Kings engage in a clever bit of parallel construction: “End” is a distorted mirror image of the show’s pilot. Embrace “The Good Wife”’s final slap: A happily-ever-after ending would have been the show’s biggest betrayal 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The world does ultimately invade these distorted dark notes, once the orchestra takes on more body. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z There are flickers of the early Blondie hit “Heart of Glass” here — the driving, distorted guitars, the quickstep drums. The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The performance in excellent Disney acoustic sung by a rapt Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Latvian Radio Choir were just as distorted. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Plath isn't the only figure whose real achievement has been obscured or distorted by the non-literary agendas of commentators after the fact. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z That may be true, but it’s a reading that obscures an arguably more important divide in left opinion that some feel has distorted public debate. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Even at his most beatifically distorted, Exley’s the wrong man for that job. Books of The Times: A 9-Year-Old Fan of ?A Fan?s Notes,? Finding Truth in His Own Fiction 2010-09-29T20:52:00Z Circling through two or three chords, using sparse arrangements and a fast-strummed, slightly distorted vintage guitar, the songs gathered a nervous energy, compulsively telling all. Music Review: Scrambling and Personalizing the Rock Timeline 2011-07-17T22:10:21Z But it’s the darker side that kicks off the album, with the opening track “Brenninsteinn” blending a distorted bass and heavy percussion. The Dark and Dreamy Rock of Sigur Rós 2013-06-18T15:18:52Z But in some of the slower movements in both works, the music seemed distorted by her ponderous tempos and mannerisms. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z Two one-star reviewers on Amazon have labelled the book “biased” as a result, one of them noting that the passage about Trump and Muslims was “totally wrong and unnecessary, distorted and misleading.” How Educational Children’s Books Are Explaining President Trump 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Maybe coming from a small and very gentrified city such as Brighton, where most of the secondary schools get at least a good rating from Ofsted, has distorted my view. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z For them, sex is not a just a compulsive physical act, but a distorted lunge at a human connection. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps most striking are the strange contraptions that look like standing spotlights, but in place of the bulbs, there are faces, distorted by transparent but thick molded lenses. At 84, an Artist Tries Something New: Displaying His Work 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Done in Picasso’s extreme distorted manner, the print rose to an extravagant $5.12 million. Auctions: Bidders at Christie's Open Pocketbooks, but With a Clear Eye 2011-11-02T12:30:11Z Its heroine retreats to her distorted idea of ballet and swans when she can’t deal with real life, but the swan aspect is entirely incidental. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ by Australian Ballet at Koch Theater 2012-06-17T22:05:37Z How much irrational fear, hatred and incomprehension has been stoked by ingesting a near-steady diet of distorted reflections of our black friends, neighbors and co-workers? Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ is a revelation but also a reminder of what we’ve been missing 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z “Locked Down,” with its down-cold James Black drum rhythms, distorted Fender Rhodes keyboards and free-range, organically farmed reverb, is a useful test case. Spring Performance: Music: Dr. John Plays Three Weekends at BAM 2012-02-24T20:50:19Z A ritual in which Angela “coughs up” a baby trapped in a tiny balloon and holds it up in front of a totem, with distorted images of fetuses flashing behind? At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z They weren’t flashy, but they had value, and were a quiet reminder — like Mr. Owens’ fog and Mr. Simons’ switcheroos — of how distorted our world has become. Welcome to Now, Courtesy of Rick Owens 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z In place of the makeup table’s mirror, there is a television monitor, which plays video of Vereen’s lost performance, which becomes increasingly distorted as we watch. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Mark Grey’s keen sound design kept acoustic and electronic sounds and amplified voices mostly in fine balance, a handful of unruly distorted climaxes aside. Music Review: ?Klinghoffer? Returns, to Be Debated Anew 2011-06-17T22:32:42Z In other words, “The Waverly Gallery” is very much a group portrait, in which everyday life is distorted to the point of surrealism by the addled soul at its center. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Designed to be projected on special handcrafted projectors augmented with colored gels, filters, wheels and lenses that distorted the image, it was originally a film performance that lasted six hours. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z “America, America is killing its youth,” he howled on “Ghost Rider,” over Rev’s distorted, two-note organ riff. Alan Vega Left a Robust Vault. The Excavation Begins With a New Album. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The show was a pulsing mess of distorted guitars and barely discernible vocals. Big & Rich loud and manic 2013-08-18T01:53:39Z It constantly mixes distorted and manipulated sounds with natural ones, and it deliberately veers away from pop familiarity. The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z In “Alien Faces 4,” the careful layering of mismatched facial features creates a beautifully distorted visage. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Sonically, it is epic — an hour and 16 minutes of sounds that are at times ambient, at times rollicking, often digitally distorted — as dense as it is beautiful. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly on making space music for a hard time on Earth 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z They sounded great when the guitar distorted, and they were louder than anything else out there. ArtsBeat: Kirk Hammett, Guitarist for Metallica, Talks About His Beloved Marshalls 2012-04-06T17:27:17Z Voices shouted around me, but they sounded muffled, distorted, and distant. U.S. soldier finds his identity as a gay man while serving in silence 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z “It’s developed in a negative way and become distorted.” Los Tigres del Norte Breaks Boundaries 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Yves Tumor’s distorted beats, including the ominously funky “Noid,” might be more suited for a dark club, but it was one of the more adventurous highlights of the weekend. Review: Highlights from Capitol Hill Block Party 2019 — the year of Lizzo 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z But however distorted, Putin’s comments — and his war — were impossible to forget on Friday. Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Similarly weird pictures of children by Loretta Lux are at Yossi Milo, but they are in color and slightly distorted digitally. Art in Review: Aipad Photography Show New York 2010-03-19T08:08:00Z We admitted that our values have become distorted and that the streets is a game you cannot win. Hustlers Anonymous 2012-10-15T22:38:00Z Like a footnote to that great movie, Scorsese’s new essay isn’t a practical prescription; it’s a personal and profound vision of a social order distorted by greed. Martin Scorsese Avenges the Auteur 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The ominous sound of doom emanates out of a heartbeat, distorted guitar, and film noir saxophone. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Knightley’s figure was controversially distorted on the poster for King Arthur in 2004: Her breasts were edited to look bigger than they are in real life. Keira Knightley Posed Topless to Protest Photoshopping 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z "What thin creations these characters are — and how distorted they are by the stilted prose and characterizations," Seghal wrote. Inside the cancellation of "American Dirt" (and its book tour) 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Through the distorted bubble glass of its walls I spied an enticing climbing playground on the South Bank, a few minutes’ walk away, and bookmarked it for a return trip. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z In the last years of his life, Renoir’s figures are bronzed and even more outrageously distorted, proto-Botero. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z After the sale, a private dealer, expressing a sentiment shared by some of his colleagues, carped about the perspective that “distorted” the bridge, as he put it. Auctions: Uptown From Wall Street, a Bull Market 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z The images are flat and distorted, but the plants are recognizable. With re-creation of 1500s garden, a reminder of when herb knowledge was a survival tool 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z You will see me distraught and distorted and know that you have made me so, and not know how to stop it or how to help. I had an affair while my husband had dementia 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z As she mourns a lost child in “Baby Birch,” at first alone with her harp, other instruments, including a distorted electric guitar, float in like glimmers of what might have been. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z She keeps subtly reconfiguring herself to match the distorted mirror he holds up. Theater Review: ‘A Doll’s House,’ With Hattie Morahan’s Frantic Nora 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z “I remember watching the scene and being immediately struck by the distorted phone filter on the psychiatrist’s voice — and her voice had the same filter,” he said. How Real-Life and Fictional Horror Seeped Into ‘The Black Phone’ 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z In this example, you can see how your entire perception of what happened — and you were a witness — is completely distorted by your point of view. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z Loaned from private collections, the distorted or crucified figures and sinister interiors anticipate Bacon's later paintings, and are shown alongside Three Studies. How Picasso helped British art turn modern 2012-02-13T19:38:09Z “The quality is terrible, but we liked how distorted and confusing and chaotic it was,” Mr. Williams said. ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? and Its Sound Effects 2011-09-09T14:41:20Z Museums, of course, do everything they can to frustrate such forces, and art restorers bring sophisticated tools to bear: hot air pens, heated spatulas, low-pressure suction tables that relax distorted canvases. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z “Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us?” A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z A Bacon Cricketer With a Back Story The Francis Bacon that Dr. Paul Brass knew was altogether different from the raucous, hard-drinking artist whose canvases depict distorted figures screaming to be freed from their frames. Inside Art: A Bacon Cricketer With a Back Story 2010-10-08T05:15:00Z Takotsubo syndrome takes its name from a Japanese octopus trap that resembles the distorted shape of the left ventricle of a heart affected by TTS. Happy events can cause potentially fatal rare heart condition 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z About 1 in 10 flowered, and when they did, they were early and distorted. Gardening mistakes are inevitable, even for the experts. Don’t let them mess with your mojo. 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Very much Pimm's all round, until you realise the distorted sample repeated throughout is saying, "Carving my initials on your forehead". This week's new tracks 2012-06-01T23:06:02Z It offers its own distorted view, which reflects the views of many of its supporters but in reality it is not respected by many people outside the UK. MPs criticise World Service cuts 2011-04-13T01:02:25Z Similarly, Lessig’s chapter on the media, in which he examines technology meeting market forces, reinforces the sense of dysfunction that flows from distorted incentives. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z American audiences that know him for his uncharacteristically sweet turn in “Philomena” or his role as the miniature Roman soldier in “Night at the Museum” movies may have a distorted view of his talents. Movie Review: ‘Alan Partridge,’ Starring Steve Coogan 2014-04-03T22:44:42Z But the influence of German expressionism is absent, there's no hard-boiled narration, no angst-ridden hero, no distorted camera angles, no nightmares, no ominous shadows, no flashbacks. The Big Sleep ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z That distorted perspective lives on in the language we still use. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z A decade after his group Company Flow and label Definitive Jux were releasing records comprised of distorted melody lines and walloping sub-bass, there's a whole generation of rappers doing the same. El-P: Cancer for Cure – review 2012-05-24T20:15:01Z In the UK, it’s less of a movement than a frenzied pack of victims of the crazily distorted, government-aggravated madness of the property market. Could you live in a tiny house? 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Would I not also spare those close to me the pain of seeing their lives, or some aspect of their lives, fictionalized, distorted, exploited? Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z But perhaps best known to modern audiences are his large reclining figures of women, often distorted and with holes cut through the stone or wood. Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z Ms. Buchloh-Kollerbohm crowded the group into a small corner to show us some “sickness masks” from Nigeria, with distorted features that gave them the appearance of someone who has suffered from leprosy or a stroke. I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z “It was a distorted portrait, more about his death than his life,” Goldberg explained. Nirvana’s manager breaks his silence on Kurt Cobain 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z It was one sign that while awards shows are inevitably distorted, incomplete and open to argument, the Latin Grammys this year struck a satisfying balance of longstanding traditions and genre-stretching possibilities. At the Latin Grammys, Youth and Age Were Both Welcome 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z It is gardening on a distorted scale where size is immense but time is short — the Keukenhof is only open for two flower-packed months from the 21st of March until the 19th of May. Chasing Rembrandt’s Tulips on Two Wheels 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Brutal, distorted vibrato guitar with a niggling violin sounding pleasingly hornet-like. Readers recommend: songs about superheroes ? results 2011-07-07T13:32:47Z His shuffles and boogies had lean, steely syncopations, and his lead-guitar lines presaged Detroit music in his wake: distorted and jabbing against the beat. Music Review: Mitch Ryder, Death and Gories Come to Lincoln Center 2010-08-01T22:30:00Z Some of these were distorted by the uneven amplification, which assigned a greatly exaggerated role to one particular viola throughout the program’s first half. The Knights Play Stravinsky and Bartok in Central Park 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Arceneaux understands this impossibly complicated history, and his work illuminates the spectacle of performance without losing sight of the psychic toll exacted upon those who portrayed such distorted caricatures. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Whatever remains of the 19th-century pictures is decayed and distorted, evoking history’s retreat and analog media’s vulnerability. Review | In the galleries: Three local artists explore the transient nature of identity 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The Wallflowers Glad All Over Columbia A distorted sense of entitlement is the common affliction of rock star offspring, but Jakob, son of Bob, seems never to have believed the world owes him anything. Jakob Dylan: 'Writing songs is a trade like anything else' 2012-09-30T19:00:06Z Achebe describes with marvelous clarity – in the essays of Morning Yet on Creation Day and Hopes and Impediments — how he began to write partly in response to distorted Western views of Africa. Remembering Chinua Achebe 2013-03-22T17:48:00Z At each of these points, the signal can be distorted or somehow diminished. Is 'The Beatles in Mono' necessary? Yes and no. 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z And while the audience will be able to piece together the plot’s timeline, Zeller’s relentlessly subjective approach places us slap-bang in the middle of Anthony’s distorted memories. ‘The Father’ Review: A Capricious Mind 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z We have to try and work out what is really going on as we see everything through Gregory's distorted perspective. Charlie Higson's top 10 horror books 2010-09-08T10:53:00Z “Grindr has really distorted peoples’ understanding of what average or normal is, and the fact that people can ask if six or seven inches are too small — it’s jaw dropping,” Woo said. Penis politics: Sex, size and stereotypes in the gay community 2014-01-12T18:00:00Z It’s an inhuman, electronic vault with a bass line that grows increasingly distorted, a twitchy beat, and eventually some nervous heavy breathing and gothic church-organ tones. The Playlist: Arcade Fire and Gorillaz Return, With Money and Power on Their Minds 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Cute harp seals are neatly woven into the compositions, suggesting the wild disparities of social media feeds, and one painting roughly mimics the composition of Picasso’s “Demoiselles,” with its shifting, jarring perspectives and distorted figures. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But anyone who believes that people of color are inherently immune to the power of whiteness, or are incapable of being conquered by it or distorted by it — well, nobody believes that. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z “In the soft obscurity, Agnes’s face appeared smooth and distorted — her forehead wide, swallowing her feverish eyes, her mouth protruding beneath her nose,” the student observes. In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z His production is menacing and to-the-point, deploying distorted drums with military precision. Turnstile Knows Hardcore’s Rules. That’s Why It Can Break Them. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z As their tempers rose, each seemed to be battling not so much the other as the distorted image of himself that his opponent represented. Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Had Much in Common 2012-08-01T22:15:55Z It’s a fun-house mirror, one that reflects our moment bigger, caricatured and distorted, but that somehow feels true to life. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Lead single "Dark Space" is above — a rush of distorted guitar and trade-off male/female vocals. World premier: "Dark Space" by Seattle's M. Women 2011-09-15T20:33:42Z The follow-up record, “Hour of the Dawn,” is released this week; its brashly distorted first single, “Losing to the Dark,” bodes extremely well for the album. Pop & Rock Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:39:49Z In “Spiral,” his catchphrase — “I want to play a game” — is delivered in a digitally distorted voice that sounds like what a perverse and unforgiving psycho would sound like. What to Know About ‘Spiral’ and the ‘Saw’ Franchise 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The song starts as choppy, programmed, trap-flavored R&B, but segues into fusion rock with overdriven keyboards and distorted lead guitar. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Soares is abetted by musicians from São Paulo who describe their music as “dirty samba”; they spike traditional samba with distorted guitars, pushy drums and unruly electronics that underline how indomitable Ms. Soares remains. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Photography promises to preserve moments forever, but Soomin Ham prefers distorted or decayed images — visual metaphors for misplaced memories and lost lives. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The photographs feature real subjects — mucous, cuticles, newspaper clippings — often captured at microscopic levels to create a fossilized, distorted effect. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Violins screech with the fervor of a distorted guitar, and Appalachian jigs ripple and ramble with freewheeling delight. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z Their distorted volumes and perspectives challenge comprehension and confuse inside with out and two with three dimensions. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z It is distorted by the sheer force of competitive will. Connections: Triathlon Training With Chopin in Mind 2010-07-15T22:35:00Z This dark and angry comedy is like an extended, horrifyingly high-stakes game of Gossip, in which a word is whispered into a successive series of ears and emerges distorted beyond recognition. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z The padding distorted the lines of the hips, backs, shoulders and chests. Renegades and Radical Bodies in 3 New York Exhibitions 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The performers lie Bianchi down on a mattress next to them, and the atmosphere turns trippy, with loud distorted club music. Review: To Revisit a Sexual Assault, She Drugs Herself Onstage 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z On first listen, the deceptively titled Treats is anything but, with cacophonous, heavily distorted guitar riffs shredding through beats that explode and crackle as if purposefully mixed too high. Sleigh Bells: Treats 2010-08-05T22:25:00Z You can picture Gober — whose best-known sculptures use familiar but distorted objects to conjure some of the perils of childhood — paging through obscure auction catalogs and haunting thrift shops. Review: Robert Gober Conjures America 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z On “Hospice” the production was distorted and frantic. Antlers, fully mature now, to play Neumos | Concert preview 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Four songs that further blur British producer-songwriter James Blake's sound, the tracks on "200 Press" mix ethereal, fuzzy beats with distorted, syrupy vocal hooks and layers of subtle percussion. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z His three siblings dismissed the possessions — worn silver dollars, mail-ordered precious stones, a gold Cross pen, four gold-painted robin eggs — as worthless, "evidence of his distorted view of the world." A legacy of 400 pulp porno novels: Chris Offutt's revealing 'My Father, the Pornographer' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Black Mirror generally offers up terrifying visions of a future distorted by technology, but here it explores its potential to unite people and create a new type of community. Spielberg's Ready Player One – in 2045, virtual reality is everyone's saviour 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The sugar crystals become something that distorts or “sugarcoats” history, the way it’s distorted or whitewashed or marginalized. Edgar Arceneaux’s labyrinthine ‘Library of Black Lies’ invites endless interpretation 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The collection also includes work from Swiss Surrealist sculptor Alberto Giacometti and — a rarity for American collections — Francis Bacon, the iconic British painter known for his unsettling images of distorted bodily forms. Seattle Art Museum gets major gift: A prized modern-art collection estimated at $400 million 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the band shout the title in distorted voices, as though singing through telephones, and the guitars crunch and wail in a parody of guitars that crunch and wail. Weezer is the absolute worst: Is Rivers Cuomo just trolling us all? 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Ditching their previous band's smooth edges in favour of something gauzier and more distorted, they went into the studio with Newfeld and created Give In, their debut album with City Slang. New music: On An On – The Hunter 2013-01-28T16:40:53Z Bodily proportions and scenic perspectives are wildly jumbled and distorted, and the rules of gravity are sometimes gleefully ignored. Savage style: two artists who tackle serious subjects with eccentric wit 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z His pronouncements are distorted and yanked out of context by acolytes and enemies alike. Books of The Times: Looking at Limbaugh in Zev Chafets?s ?Army of One? 2010-05-23T21:50:00Z Edwards' dazed, distorted tracks come from a techno tradition "shot through with melancholy, or at least unease," Sherburne said. Underground music hero Delroy Edwards fosters an above-board approach 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z And if we’re stumbling through life with such a distorted understanding of our social circles, where does that leave all the other received wisdom about friendship’s importance? Are your friends really your friends? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z He distorted me into the person I am. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Even when he works with straightforward plays, as in his production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” that opened in October in Sofia, Bulgaria, sentences tend to be distorted in artificial ways. At 80, Robert Wilson Holds On to a Singular Vision for the Stage 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z At a stroke, she revealed not only quotidian ’grams of sunsets and lunches, but also more than three dozen distorted selfies, deformed by unnatural smudges, copious flares and kaleidoscopic reflections. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The tune persisted for another minute and a half before ending with distorted muffs. Arcade Fire covers Jane's Addiction, 'Beverly Hills Cop' theme at Forum 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z This has a lot to do with what we have been conditioned to think of as "natural" as opposed to unnatural within our already distorted food system. In a world of ultra-processed food, here's why I am sold on lab-grown chicken 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z I am surprised by the distorted images that show up in panoramas, like the ones above, as a result of my moving the camera, moving myself, and moving the subject. Making Dance: Fifty Years and Counting 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z But in creating an orderly horizontal sequence of pitches, certain intervals — the vertical harmonic relationships between two notes played simultaneously — are distorted so they no longer ring true. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Auerbach dished out distorted guitar lines with a skip in his step, bouncing on the balls of his feet and shaking his head like a Muppet. Concert review: Black Keys at the United Center 2012-03-20T14:36:00Z Even during my childhood, its greenery and pristine lakes distorted the reality of its gradual decline. Past Into Present: 4 Journeys That Changed Us 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z NBC has said that Farrow distorted how the network handled his reporting. Time’s Up Blasts Gabrielle Union’s Ouster as Reality Show Judge 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z His keyboards squirm, chatter and moan, distorted voices checking in from the next galaxy. Album review: Killer Mike, 'R.A.P. Music' 2012-05-18T17:33:00Z And none of Mr. Valiente’s dancers distorted the tango with high lifts or acrobatic extremes. Dance Review: ?Tango y Vida? at Chase Latino Cultural Festival 2010-08-02T22:00:00Z If the cleaner selfie recalls her underrated doll photographs, and if the more distorted selfie harks back to her more macabre photos, these are nevertheless direct testimony to her own body in pain. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z With burnished corners and a semi-gloss finish, it’s the perfect surface on which to project your fears and fantasies — even before you notice the corner, which is distorted into a ridge of horrifying ripples. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The water had distorted Hazel’s features so beyond recognition that she could be identified only by her clothes and the gold fillings in her teeth. Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But it’s not them; it’s a distorted version of them. The Master’s Joaquin Phoenix on Animal Inspirations, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Pleasures of Discomfort 2012-09-13T12:00:22Z It is a head-trip: a satire about borderline personalities in the distorted TV realities of today. Did Hans Rausing read my book? 2012-07-22T19:00:07Z And there's an ambient thuggishness in the way the market for creative work is being distorted by theft. Who makes money out of Spotify? 2010-04-18T21:30:00Z With its dark shadows, and faces distorted in convex mirrors, it looks like a scary movie, which is what it is. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z Yet they hint at photographic origins, as distorted though some digital prism. Review | In the galleries: Creating a world of her own 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Risk was palpable, and yet classical form was never distorted. Dance Review: Ethan Stiefel’s Farewell to Ballet Theater at the Met 2012-07-08T22:20:06Z First up is the reveal of those two paintings by Cobain in Seattle, both showing distorted, Expressionistic figures that owe something to Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Never-before-seen Kurt Cobain paintings to surface in Seattle 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z A looped, gently distorted harp adds another layer. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z I'd hear the same stories repeated, distorted, reinvented and retold in different voices, with different endings. Walking tours are the real fringe theatre 2010-12-20T11:38:27Z Part of the reason, she said, is a kind of distorted, post-9/11 flag-waving, combined with a heavy dose of news fatigue. Perspective | Middle East civilian deaths have soared under Trump. And the media mostly shrug. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Composed of a single row of speakers spanning the length of the floor, the audioscape was a collage of distorted street noise. A sneak peek at the Broad museum draws an enthusiastic crowd 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z That sense of sound and spirit merging also pervades the next scene, set around a distorted, outsized chair. Eva Yerbabuena/Farruquito – review 2013-03-18T12:50:00Z There he must finally confront the uncomfortable facts of his own convoluted identity, and that leads inevitably toward unearthing his country’s purposely distorted history. Review | Peter Carey’s new novel is a strange ride through Australia’s racist past — and present 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Sounds went hollow, my vision distorted, and I couldn’t breathe. I was a hostage at the 2018 Trader Joe's shooting. Here's what I know now about trauma 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z In other works, the eye must hold two thoughts at once: The subject of “The Curtain” is half drawn across a dark nighttime window; its cheerful geometric pattern is distorted by its lavish undulations. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The show includes Impressionist masterpieces and 20th-century post-Impressionist works, in which artists like Klimt and Klee distorted the garden theme in their own artwork. What's on This Week Around the World 1458-12-10T05:00:00Z When I first watched the scene, I was most unnerved by the way their talk mashed everything together, suggesting that there were only two sides to the question—a bizarrely distorted premise. “The Newsroom” ’s Crazy-Making Campus-Rape Episode 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Family and community, which are good things, can then be distorted into aberrant relationships with family members and inbreeding. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Van Halen's sound was loud and distorted but also clear and focused. With his signature guitar style, Eddie Van Halen changed rock music 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z It was distorted, and he allowed himself to be persuaded that Saddam was a greater risk than he actually was. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z “The collection is about everything, all the time,” the designer announced, referring to her distorted zigzags and crazy woven patterns shown with a frenetic, upbeat energy. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z All the while the veteran vocalist Joan La Barbara read from “Unpacking My Library,” Walter Benjamin’s classic essay about collecting books, her voice distorted and deepened to the point of unintelligibility. Music Review: Zeena Parkins and Ne(x)tworks Ensemble w/ JACK Quartet 2012-09-11T21:56:55Z Painted with wide brushes in high-keyed hues, her expressionistically distorted pictures of partly unclothed people project existential angst with happy exuberance. Art Review: The Uncluttered Look Has Its Day 2011-03-03T23:30:06Z Perhaps it was the distorted guitars that instantly recalled ’80s hair metal or the fact that there was hardly a quiet moment in his set, but Chesney’s brand of country music hardly sounded like it. Chesney keeps fans buzzing with 2-hour parade of his hits 2013-06-02T22:11:24Z The electronic-sounding clicks, buzzes and tones are modulated and distorted by one’s touch, whether stroking or pressing, sustained or staccato. Sergei Tcherepnin makes music with his viewers 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The disturbing twists are matched by music that shifts from feathery and layered to distorted and dirty. Album review: The Weeknd, 'Echoes of Silence' 2012-01-12T22:32:00Z It did not disappoint: classic v-shaped glass, three speared olives distorted through a bracing cold sea of gin. Two years later, I’m still measuring life in Martini glasses 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Shook’s production isn’t as stark as it seems at first; behind the implacable beat and the distorted guitar, electronics and other instruments lurk like unwanted memories. Lou Reed’s Folky Velvet Underground Demo, and 9 More New Songs 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Two years ago, a review published the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports similarly noted "a potential association between FA and distorted body image and disordered eating." Food allergies are on the rise — are they causing an increase in eating disorders? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z To cultural and gender studies he bequeathed the enticing idea that the judgmental look or predatory gaze of others shaped and commonly distorted a person’s sense of who they were. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it’s ugly and distorted; you’ve become a scorned, unwanted creature.” Review | Patricia Engel’s ‘Infinite Country’ focuses on the psychological pain of a family split apart 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z At first FKA twigs is accompanied only by a few piano notes, but other sounds waft in, acoustic and distorted and electronic, among them a forebodingly calm whispered beatbox beat. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Wants to Start Over, and 7 More New Songs 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Their 2016 debut, “I, Gemini,” was a frenetic album of distorted, twitchy pop with song titles like “Eat Shiitake Mushrooms” and “Chocolate Sludge Cake.” Let’s Eat Grandma’s Electro Pop Is Glittery. Its Subjects Are Weighty. 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Kraftwerk's Hall of Mirrors is nominated by suzi, who says its protagonist "steps into a hall of mirrors and falls in love with his own reflection – but suddenly the picture is distorted". Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z What’s more, how many men have had to overcome a distorted version of masculinity that allows only a narrow, hyperbolically violent form of emotional expression? Amid calls for gender equity in Hollywood, the stakes are high. 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “My sound is big, heavy and a bit distorted because it has to overlap the guitar,” he said in a 2000 interview. Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z One electric guitar chord is strummed in what seems to be 4/4 time, repeated, distorted and topped with additional noise for the first full minute of “Back to the Radio.” Florence + the Machine’s Conflicted Coronation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z In nine succinct movements, with titles like “Remote,” “Mysterious” and “Forceful,” this work weaves glancing — and distorted — references to piano trios by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and others into his own intricate, emotionally focused language. Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Pays Tribute to Previn at Carnegie Hall 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z He also was driven by a desire to desensationalize a story that he thought had been distorted in the tabloids. In Hamptons, Ammon Twins Put Horror in Perspective 2012-11-14T22:17:45Z In “Explanation,” the same expanse of tiles serves as both floor and ceiling, as figures in at least four different sizes perch at wildly distorted tables. Mernet Larsen probes perception and experience 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The amplification of the offstage priests in the Judgment Scene was distorted, resulting in weird sibilants blaring from above the proscenium. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z We met at university when I had a distorted view of what sex should be like. I’ve faked every one of my orgasms over the past four years | Dear Mariella 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Here’s a traditional Afghan melody in modern guise: distorted, multitracked and surrounded in effects, yet still speaking from its home. Shawn Mendes and Tainy’s Summer Breeze, and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z As Mr. Monush writes in his blog, “I was staggered by the number of times the Scrooge tale had shown up in the media, either done straight, or distorted, updated, spoofed, rethought or referenced.” Spare Times for Children for Dec. 21-27 2012-12-20T23:12:15Z What sabotages the show are stretches of distorted amplification, at a volume and level of echo that obliterate the lyrics, and therefore, the narrative. Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-20T01:30:14Z “It was a photo my mom had found, but it was so distorted, we wouldn’t tell for sure whether it was her,” Gad said. A stranger called. He had photos of her family from the Holocaust era. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The witnesses’ descriptions of whatever happened are usually comically distorted, as in a game of telephone, so that everyone’s understanding of Trivia Night is at best half-wrong. In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Liane Moriarty Finds New Complications 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z There were descriptions, from Michael Brown Sr., among others, about how distorted and “disrespectful” they thought the accounts in the media were of the victim’s life and death. A Chorus Remembers Michael Brown in ‘Antigone in Ferguson’ 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Wall messages are constantly changing, new ones replacing old ones, old ones covered up or distorted by the elements. Burhan Dogancay, Artist Inspired by Urban Walls, Dies at 83 2013-01-21T04:18:59Z When Diz rambles about his past, Millie tends to roll her eyes and swat the air, as if his distorted memories were swarming like flies. After 60 years, this R&B singer’s wife said it was time to retire. Then came his final show. 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But another previously unreleased song, the enigmatic “Grey Riders,” breaks free of the genre; it starts as a fiddle-topped cowboy trot but soon lashes out with Mr. Young’s distorted guitar and his wild hound-dog howl. Playlist Jon Pareles: Wistful Country, Politics and a Hint of the Divine 2011-05-25T19:02:17Z For all its uncertainties, "Urbanized" may open your eyes to the deliberate way some cities are designed — and the accidental ways in which others become distorted. 'Urbanized': sprawling views on urban planning 2012-01-05T21:44:04Z What of the perversely distorted view of American chattel slavery where somehow it was "poor whites" who had it "worse" than black human property? Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The book is, among other things, a fascinating meditation on the malleability of identity in the online age, on the ease with which the truth about individual lives can be publicly distorted. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z The thing that really blew my mind is the last tune on the record, which in the Masada parlance we call “events tunes” — where the composition is a series of distorted or seemingly unrelated phrases. A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn: A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn 2013-05-19T21:41:39Z Their exaggerated use of pattern and distorted angles of perspective reflect not only the influence of post-impressionism, but also of popular contemporary design. Another world, another time 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The celestial monstrosity absorbs all but a remnant of light, leaving a vague, distorted suggestion of what once was on the horizon of the black hole. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z It sounds distorted, slightly warped—ventriloquised almost, as though piped in from somewhere else. Extract: C by Tom McCarthy 2010-08-06T08:53:00Z “He’s using a radically distorted or fragmented approach to storytelling to show a number of different scenes at once. The idea of Cubism was to represent multiple time sequences on one single canvas.” Trying to Save a 1950s Mural of 1800s Chelsea From Demolition 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Dreamy and delicate, brimming with romantic yearning, even the most urgently distorted moments of “Painful,” like the searing riffs of “From a Motel 6,” are rendered tenderly, with a measured restraint. Yo La Tengo’s model career: This is how to survive as an indie rock band 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z She stayed on as a groove materialized, setting up “Red Before Orange,” a ballad not unlike some proto-smooth-jazz records by George Benson — at least up until the distorted solo at its melting center. The Nels Cline Singers Play New Music at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-05-05T16:43:42Z An experimental artist, Samaras began working with Polaroid in 1969, pushing its colored emulsion dyes to create multifaceted and sometimes distorted portraits, a process that became known as "photo-transformations." Adams, Samaras set records at NYC Polaroid auction 2010-06-22T16:01:00Z Novelists who know how books are written, changed, translated, edited and distorted are in a unique position to counter the literalist argument. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z Now they were present, but distorted, she found. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z However people do understand context, and although distorted through a colonial lens, Indigenous people do see themselves mounted as colonial trophies, disingenuously and eternally posed as the antagonist in the settler's story of origin. Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z At one point, a dancer in a long-snouted mask capered in front of what might have been a visually distorted car park. Dance performance as a high-tech journey into the esoteric 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Nestor’s heroics in a crack-den bust — which appear in distorted form in a YouTube video — similarly threaten to ignite racial tensions in the wake of accusations of police brutality. Books Of the Times: ‘Back to Blood’ by Tom Wolfe 2012-10-18T12:00:00Z Instead, he has made a historical film in which the historical element is so grossly distorted as to detach the hero from humanity. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z When the figures didn't stack up, they distorted them. Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio by Gareth Williams – review 2013-07-17T15:02:02Z Metal offends those who loath its cacophony and distorted guitars, who disapprove of metallers' sometimes raucous bacchanalia, who are shocked by its use of the "dark side" symbolisms. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z “The Good Fight,” also produced by the Kings, operated on the theory that chaotic times require a distorted filter, and a grab bag of unusual tools. How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z But “St. Vincent” veers the other way: toward the brittle, the shallow and the distorted, while the beat gets earthier. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z The face of the dominating figure is oddly distorted, with one eye squinting, mouth hanging open and head torqued to the left. Davidson Galleries: Artists play mind games using sharp skills 2012-07-18T18:52:03Z "These are dramatic drawings with distorted perspective: he creates highly ambiguous spaces," said Kierkuc-Bielinski. Piranesi works drawn together in London for first time since 18th century 2013-02-14T18:13:07Z The gnawing “Climbing up the Walls” is aptly named, as it’s a song with knocking percussion, creaking sound effects and distorted vocals. At 20, Radiohead’s “OK Computer” becomes an album for the Trump era 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z When the trial was remembered, it was distorted in telling ways. Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Stuart Neville writes about contemporary Belfast, but everything he says about the present is coloured by the city's history and the way lives have been distorted and disfigured by the Troubles. Val McDermid: addicted to crime fiction 2013-07-11T11:35:00Z His distorted, frequently comic paintings exhibit a deep engagement with art history. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Namely, that to counteract preconceptions of the star players as squabbling hysterical celebrities with skewed value systems and distorted morals, they had to don the camouflage of trust. In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But the relaxing-classical Muzak is still here, cut for cheap effect with distorted electric guitar or the screams and booms of rockets and explosions. Review: Slow Poses and Clouds of White Powder 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z I imagine he would have regarded the indignity of his voice being distorted on the tape as more damaging than the distorted politics. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z Over three floors you’ll explore a distorted holiday landscape that looks as if a gaudy Christmas lawn display had exploded. 8 Holiday Shows for Various Tastes 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The result is a composition with uncanny depth, indicated by subtly distorted elements. David Hockney Plays with Perspective in an L.A. Exhibition 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z It's surprisingly good fun and encourages you to capture a new face for each game, leading to an amusing collection of friends' slightly distorted noggins to pump full of cartoon lead. Games special: Nintendo 3DS launch 2011-03-26T00:06:00Z Breathe Carolina, a band from Denver, made electropop that Warped can love: with two vocalists, yearning and screaming; with synthesizer tones that used dubstep’s distorted buzz; and with occasional blasts of metallic guitar. Music Review: Warped Tour Returns to Nassau Coliseum 2012-07-22T22:51:26Z Holter, with a keyboard and a string quartet, was opulent and delicate – but Hecker and Lopatin created a huge, swelling, apocalyptic din, where orchestral samples were mangled and distorted with laptop noise. When the church turns into a pub 2012-12-27T08:00:05Z A track called “Secret Hobbies” lurches and then lunges through a haze of distorted overtones; on “Legion” the glacial crush of doom metal gives way to something sweaty and spasmodic. Playlist: Making Mischief Along With the Melodies 2010-02-27T03:47:00Z In 2013, researchers at the University of Alabama published a meta-analysis of existing studies, arguing that the scientific evidence of the correlation between breakfast and obesity has been distorted. Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Well, it depends 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z L.A.’s No Age make punk rock in only the most nominal sense these days: Their guitars are still distorted, but the noise is just a means to a very pretty end. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z A great ooze of brown emanating from the wafer’s base heads toward a green mound — wasabi with a twist — that suggests a distorted Buddha or perhaps an actor in a kimono about to sweep offstage. Review: ‘Ron Nagle: Five O’Clock Shadow,’ Delicacy and Tension on a Small Scale 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Following Trump until July 2018, the book explores how the president’s attacks on the free press, the Justice Department and his political enemies distorted factual evidence and shored up his power in unprecedented ways. Review | 3 books to help young readers understand our times 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Much of Mr. Sun’s work has to do with the way politics and history are distorted. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z By anecdotes I mean subtle exaggerations, slightly embellished stories, and willfully distorted scenes. Chris Cleave: what happened when authors and book bloggers met for lunch 2011-02-21T12:56:34Z For reasons of not looking as if you’re trying too hard, another convention of TikTok is that the music clips often sound secondhand, slightly distorted, as if taxing the limits of a smartphone speaker. ‘It’s hard to put the brakes on it. We doubled down’: Charli D’Amelio and the first family of TikTok 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Sometimes it lends the feeling of living in a Dali painting, with familiar features of governance and life in Washington distorted by daily crisis. Book review: ‘Washington Journal,’ reporting Watergate, by Elizabeth Drew JC: My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z “We have a distorted sense of how we judge potential in our society,” says Nicks. In ‘Homeroom,’ an unprecedent school year caught on film 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Instead, you just see her face distorted in a fish-eye, as she tearfully says good bye to her sister and father. Why The Shallows is better than The Birds 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z In the meantime, those people whose faces go unrecognized, or who, like my friend with the sparklers, are the objects of distorted memories, must practice forbearance. Circa Now: Nice to Meet You ... Again 2013-06-28T20:32:17Z “I Feel Pretty” is practically a feature-length version of that Dove ad in which a forensic sketch artist illustrates women’s distorted ideas of their own looks. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Enclosed in a simple card sleeve, the vinyl carries just 20 seconds of music: ambient electronica, with a distorted voice reciting the numbers "nine, three, six, five, five, seven". Does Boards of Canada's record-store clue point to new album? 2013-04-22T10:39:26Z As we walked across, the distorted sound of carnival music wafted over from Pedroland Park, giving the whole place a quasi-nightmarish vibe. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s a tender sentiment, but the song crackles with an undercurrent of jangly, distorted guitar and palpable anxiety, as Jacklin frets that a love so pure is doomed to be lost. Britney Spears and Elton John’s Mash-up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The accompanying paper trail that shows bills of sale, liquidation papers and letters, they add, was later fabricated or distorted to mask illicit dealings. Lawsuit Against MoMA Highlights Timing Issues in Claims of Nazi Looting 2011-08-23T16:57:53Z These panels reappear here and there in the galleries, refracting light, disco ball fashion, and creating distorted images of quite different works from other decades. Jim Hodges at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z During the performance, stationed amid the audience at a table littered with tape decks and electronic effects, Mr. Swanson injected distorted rehearsal fragments and other sounds, and swirled the mix throughout the space with loudspeakers. Music Review: Yarn/Wire Plays Percussion and Piano at Issue Project Room 2012-03-25T21:49:50Z The strangeness of seeing oneself distorted in literature – and indeed of not seeing oneself at all – was part of my own childhood. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z “Warning Sign” is a hushed, hazy song that maps interpersonal tensions onto musical contrasts: quiet and loud, sustained and rhythmic, dulcet and distorted. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Today’s moviegoers are as likely to see their world – however distorted – reflected back at them as they are to be entertained. La La Land, Hidden Figures and films that squeezed happiness out of 2016 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z It was more that in comparison my life looked to me like a fun house mirror, some distorted and smeared version of what I thought I’d been heading towards for years. That waitress who thinks she can write: Waiting tables and crafting a novel in the infamous MFA town 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Then I wrote that letter kind of explaining why I wanted the distorted version. The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Coldplay's ninth studio album "Music of the Spheres" acts as a paean of sorts to space rock, the hypnotic, often distorted sound most commonly associated with Pink Floyd. Coldplay has lost its way 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, told jurors that people’s memories can become distorted after the fact and testified that strong emotions around a memory were no guarantee of its accuracy.. Highlights from Harvey Weinstein's rape trial 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The resentments that boil over in the play reflect some of the distorted priorities that white standards for physical perfection have imposed on the rest of the world. Review | Mean girls are at home in Ghana, too 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z On-the-nose moments like that — there are many — sometimes left me feeling that “Mary Page Marlowe,” however gorgeously acted, might not be hiding much of anything in the switchbacks of its distorted chronology. Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Lives an Ordinary, Extraordinary Life 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z On Sunday night, he was the crowd’s voice: his distorted “we are the youth!” warbles spoke to their collective jubilation. If you’re not a teenager, don’t try to understand Lil Yachty 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “Everything got recorded way, way, way too hot and it was distorted as hell,” Spot told Jim Ruland, the author of “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records.” Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett: The Punk Producer’s 10 Essential Recordings 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Studies show women face overwhelming pressure to be thin — exacerbated by social media — which can lead to distorted body image and even disordered eating. Naked with strangers, finally unafraid 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z She’s also interested in Cal’s fundamental sense of right and wrong, and how badly he thinks it has been distorted by the culture wars in America. Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Have Americans’ powers of perception become totally distorted? Michael Bay’s “apolitical” Benghazi movie: Every kind of American delusion and stupidity in one package! 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z I guess my perspective on fan reaction is distorted because I don't scour the Internet for objective appraisals of the show. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z Since its publication in 1862, Victor Hugo’s masterpiece has been pirated, doctored, distorted, bowdlerized and flat-out betrayed by publishers, translators, filmmakers and musical impresarios from around the globe. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z This Wonderland is not the proto-psychedelic playground of the 1951 Disney animated version, but a distorted, claustrophobic environment populated by menacing, bizarre figures. DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z Ms. Staats was further hampered, at the performance I saw, by a headset microphone that distorted her voice without seeming to amplify it. Review: In ‘The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play,’ Clutching to the Past 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The cold war invaded and distorted private lives, which is why it fascinates novelists. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z “It’s not surprising that these monuments have distorted the past,” she added. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Because we are increasingly viewing life through our phone lens, I think our lives, in a way, are becoming distorted. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Still, what was left was hardly conventional: Whirlwind, from 1975's Siren, pitches the hiccups, tics and weird stresses than constituted Bryan Ferry's vocal style against a ferociously distorted, effect-laden guitar and reedy garage-rock organ. Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z A face distorted, almost unrecognisable, bloodied and swollen. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z First, a distorted, disorienting alternate world — “the imaginary world” — lies parallel to our own “real” world, and it can be accessed only through portals in the woods. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In “Energy Grid,” a mixed-media piece, a nude humanoid form is warped and distorted in an undulating mesh of lines that evokes some kind of force field. Review: Kirkland exhibit asks, Is connectivity really bringing us closer together? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z When station directors were interviewed by Radio Broadcast magazine in 1924, they asserted that women sounded “shrill,” “nasal,” and “distorted” on the radio, and claimed that women’s higher voices created technical problems. A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In “Orlando,” her vocal part includes distorted Baroque vocalizations, with extensive ornamentation. A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z In particular, the vocal twisting, distorted, blurred and robotised Britney, giving the eerie impression of a record that had swallowed up its own singer. Britney is capable of a cult hit. Hold It Against Me fails to deliver 2011-01-13T22:14:01Z He joins a group of stranded mutants and becomes the storyteller, every night, around the campfire, he tells them distorted, half-forgotten versions of Greek and Hebrew myths. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z A distorted vocal repeatedly intones "on me" until one suspects the protagonist of paranoid self-obsession. Readers recommend: songs about eavesdropping ? results 2011-07-14T12:18:29Z Instead, she unleashed her virtuosity in intricate vocalizations and gleeful explosions of noise, electronically distorted, which she drew from all manner of instruments, objects and body parts — even the knees of a front-row listener. Review: Claire Chase Explores the Flute’s Possibilities 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z What do you think the effect is on society of these distorted set of values? William H Macy: 'Even the bad sex I've had was pretty good' 2013-01-17T19:00:00Z “Skip This Track” goes retro, with neat but distorted analog-flavored bass and old-fashioned canned handclaps. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z Space is big and empty, stations are confined, weightlessness is baffling, durations are distorted, and relationships are skewed. Movie of the Week: “Mission to Mars” 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z “Contrary to distorted reporting, no one at that press conference addressed a question to me about the racial makeup of the jury,” wrote Streep. Meryl Streep blames 'distorted reporting' for 'we're all Africans' row 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The prize for nonfiction went to Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed,” which examines the way America has memorialized and distorted the legacy of slavery. National Book Critics Circle Names 2021 Award Winners 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Their features are described in seemingly stippled tonalities, nearly photographic but subtly distorted and rendered more expressive, that suggest graphite or even lithography. Art in Review 2010-03-04T22:24:00Z The enveloping roar of distorted guitars and overdriven amps. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z “Half Full Glass of Wine” started fast, then abruptly slowed to a chug, with an androgynous vocal over a dirty, distorted blues riff played by three guitars. Concert review: Tame Impala at the Vic 2013-03-07T05:58:00Z A few incomplete or distorted lines were fixed with sound-alike actors. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z It is not a matter of greed, but of distorted incentives leading to unsettling behavior. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Sometimes we see the world extruded and distorted, not through Bacon's eye, or through the medium of paint, but through the distorting lens of a glass of booze. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z Yamhill is not reflected through a rearview mirror, distorted by a removed author’s guilt, resentment or nostalgia. Chronicling a Community, and a Country, in Economic Crisis 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The magazine said the image, which was drawn by Barry Blitt, was intended as a satirical comment about some of the distorted right-wing attacks on the Democratic senator. Cartoons that courted controversy 2013-01-29T13:04:18Z But, he added: “When played together they were perfect for the emotion and the message. It was distorted and it was beautiful.” William Brohn, Who Made Broadway Orchestras Sing, Dies at 84 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The pandemic that distorted the season also distorted the awards process. In a Chaotic Tonys Season, It Was an Honor Just to Open 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z She collaborated with Beck on her last studio album, IRM, and his influence looms over these ethereal, distorted symphonies. Charlotte Gainsbourg – review 2012-07-22T15:44:50Z Upon his return home, reality and fantasy increasingly collide, and Elliot’s distorted perspective slips into outright lies to friends and documentarians alike. Review: ‘Kung Fu Elliot’ Documentary Follows a Martial Arts Enthusiast 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The crimson-toned art work captures a distorted vision of Freud, who like Bacon was one of postwar Britain's leading artists. Francis Bacon painting auctioned for $37 million 2011-02-10T22:45:10Z Similar to how Lo, the protagonist of Summers’s novel “The Project,” is slowly sucked into a Christian cult, “I’m the Girl” follows Georgia as she is indoctrinated into a distorted facsimile of feminism. Girl Hunter or Girl Hunted? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s important to keep in mind that action scenes on the page are stylized and distorted, artificial representations of a real experience. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z This week the Museum of Modern Art is displaying its collection’s print — with the scruffy look and distorted audio — before its restoration. ‘Shadows in the City’ Review: A Sleazy Slice of 1980s No Wave 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z “We got caught in a hurricane of distorted media in a sense with headlines,” Mr. Forte said. Springsteen Tribute Band Pulls Out of New Jersey Inauguration Gala 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Grooms and Ms. Gross’s distorted rendering of the city in papier-mâché, vinyl and fiberglass spoke to the precariousness of urban life, the impermanent character of the city at any given moment. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He reads something to us but his voice is distorted by synthesizers and I can't understand him. The Last Concert: Indie Icons LCD Soundsystem Bid a Brilliant, Bizarre Adieu 2011-04-04T10:15:00Z A medley of lights and sounds and speech, distorted and enhanced, then began. Andrew Schneider’s ‘Youarenowhere’ Is at the Coil Festival 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Sanín declined to speak to The Times on the record, saying that her views had been distorted and that, for now, she believed that continuing to try to explain herself would be counterproductive. A Writer’s Post and its Consequences Divide Latin American Literary Circles 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Farrelly must also contend with criticism from the pianist’s relatives who say the film distorted his character. Who Will Be Nominated for Best Director? 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z “I’m saying that people should be warned when they see it that it’s a distorted view of history.” Metropolitan Opera to Present ‘Klinghoffer’ Monday in Spite of Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Hexagonal screens, which filmed the concert as if were a black-and-white movie, further distorted the sense of time and place. Arcade Fire revel, dance and rebel at the Forum 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z His mind is medicated, programmed through the distorted, mediated realities presented by modern mass media. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He makes endless loops, a very meditative type of music that gives you a distorted sense of time. Meltdown 2012 – Marina Abramovic: 'Artists can do whatever they want' 2012-07-29T23:05:00Z In his video introduction, the peacock – through a distorted vocal filter – heavily implied that he was a once-beloved entertainer who’s now on the outs. The Masked Singer: the year's strangest TV show is already here 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z However, leaving aside the distorted grunge of the title track, you can't imagine many actual bikers wanting to listen to such deliciously groovy sounds. The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Stu Phillips – Hells Angels on Wheels 2013-06-12T09:43:40Z Clark’s guitar doesn’t always sound like a guitar – it is distorted, smudged, sometimes altered beyond recognition. Album review: St. Vincent, 'Strange Mercy' 2011-09-12T02:34:00Z Artists across the Continent and Russia distorted or splintered the forms of reality, trying to get at something newer and deeper. Art Review: Modernism From a World in Convulsion 2011-02-10T23:01:06Z Whether speeding and distorted or slow and ethereal, the Messthetics have a remarkable cohesion. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Much of that growth stems from a distorted twist on the famous Field of Dreams quotation: if you arm them they will raid. Do Not Resist: new film shows how US police have become an occupying army 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But his fear kicks into paranoia when he begins having visions of a monstrous wolf man, a distorted memory of a childhood costume. ‘Hypochondriac’ Review: A Mother of All Breakdowns 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Because market prices do not reflect these externalities, all prices in the economy are distorted, including the price of labor and the prices of the machines that replace human labor. I got slimed by Marco Rubio: The massive debate fail shows off his ignorance 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The figures are rendered like the gentle beauties of traditional Chinese art, only their pretty faces are distorted with pain and anger. Female Factor: Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene 2011-01-20T12:30:05Z Human rights advocates were outraged, arguing that the exhibit distorted facts and omitted crucial context. ‘The Report’ and the Untold Story of a Senate-C.I.A. Conflict 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, he became known for sculptures involving comically distorted faces and bodies of people projected onto stuffed dummies. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The Larry Sanders Show focused on a fake chatshow with real guests; Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm featured numerous guest stars playing distorted versions of themselves and pretended to offer glimpses into a comedian's life. This is the End: why actors love to play themselves 2013-06-06T18:00:00Z In my own experience," he says, "you work out that the job is going to give you a fairly distorted diet, so I go to see films with the missus at the weekend. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z He is interested in how life was still “grotesque and distorted, sick and crooked, undignified and humiliated.” Review: Knausgaard Becomes a Writer in a Sick, Crooked World 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z White does the crying and lets his distorted guitar do the talking on “High Ball Stepper.” Review: Jack White goes country on second solo CD 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s a movie about the 1970s and about our own time, and about the ways those two eras serve as each other’s distorted mirrors or diabolical doubles. Depravity, class war and the 1 percent: Tom Hiddleston shines in brilliant dystopian fable “High-Rise” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The sound of Mr. Dunne’s feet is also processed electronically, distorted, multiplied, looped. Dance Review: For Colin Dunne, Life After ?Riverdance? 2011-10-21T21:30:31Z Heritage Keepers relies on fear, shame, distorted information and biases. Science or sex: Which does the right hate more? 2012-06-24T00:00:00Z In one, critic Jane Hu asked, “How does one write an immigrant story when the story’s very premise was designed to be distorted?” Review | Anthony Veasna So’s ‘Afterparties’ is a bittersweet testament to the late author’s talents 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Continuing to gather strength, I decided sue the BBC and the production company Lion TV for libel following the screening of a sequence of events that I can only describe as distorted and untruthful. How Castaway made my life hell 2010-08-11T19:00:00Z The answer — depicted in touching flashbacks and distorted supernatural flourishes — is heartbreaking. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z His own longtime Southern-rock jam band has a gravity to match either of them, with brawling, distorted riffs and lyrics full of bleak insight. Where to Catch Music and Comedy on New Year’s Eve 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z That it’s heightened in memory and maybe also slightly distorted. Greta Gerwig on making ‘Little Women’ ‘at the speed of life’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The cold war, in which whoever was not with us was against us, had already distorted western views of Asia and Africa. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z It was more romantic Icelandic strings and the beats on this album are distorted, they sound like volcanoes. Björk Is Your Tour Guide: Her Stories About the MOMA Exhibit 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Mostly, it was rock turned to 11, any glitz eclipsed by distorted darkness. Rock in Rio USA is a ball of confusion 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z What sabotages the show are stretches of distorted amplification, at a volume and level... Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-22T02:56:47Z Her command of minutiae is impressive, as is her enthusiasm for even the most minor aspects of Anne’s frequently distorted story. Books of The Times: Once More, Revisiting Anne Boleyn Yet Again 2009-12-17T16:42:00Z The columns were roundly criticized as distorted and inaccurate by U.S. diplomats during their testimony before the House’s impeachment hearings. John Solomon columns on Ukraine ripped in newspaper’s internal investigation for conflicts and distortions 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z All of the panelists agreed that those sisterly relationships may end up a bit distorted by television process. Essence Fest 2012: Is Reality TV Still Not Diverse Enough? 2012-07-08T15:59:07Z The track is industrial, with brute-force drums and distorted guitar, insisting that limits are being pushed; variations of a four-letter word pop up in the lyrics. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s called “A Year and a Day,” but the lyrics to that song aren’t on the lyric sheet and I’m using a real distorted mic, so it’s not really clear. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z Then he starts playing, his guitar sounding not so much distorted as corroded, while Sarth Calhoun pounds away at a computer. Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio 2010-04-20T20:30:00Z It is discomfiting to stand in front of a man whose face is distorted by rage and know that one’s own face must look much the same. The search for my inner ‘hero’: a modern masculinity retreat 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z However, Bush also experiments with different lead vocal treatments, manipulating her voice into a distorted spirit form on "Leave It Open" and leaping between upper and lower ranges on "Sat In Your Lap." Kate Bush's bewitching "The Dreaming" turns 40 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Ms. MacMillan, who also wrote “Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History,” also warned about how easy it can be to draw malign or politically convenient lessons from a misremembered or distorted past. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The new track keeps to The Strokes’ signature guitar sound with Julian Casablancas’ tiny, distorted vocals. The Strokes Just Released Their First New Song in Years 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z I think he had gifts which have been distorted and perverted ... Myra Hindley: a new chapter 2012-06-19T19:29:01Z It is how our protagonist imagines an ambulance might have looked, distorted by Kunzru's narrative of Chinese whispers. Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace 2013-06-18T09:36:00Z When reality is distorted by authoritarian propaganda, cynicism can be impossible to distinguish from sincerity, and opportunism can masquerade as righteousness. ‘Donbass’ Review: War in Ukraine, the Prequel 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z They used an electronic keyboard known as a Mellotron, distorted guitars, hip-hop-style percussion and de-tuned instruments — including banjos and bass harmonicas — to give a modern effect to sounds from the period. What’s a Kanye West song doing in a TV show about slavery? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z He finds today's rhythms — distorted by the blur of the Internet and a confessional, look-at-me generation — hilarious and bewildering. Andrew Dice Clay enjoys another roll, with help from Woody Allen 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z "Kids grow up with a distorted view of what celebrities, who have major touch-ups, really look like," Alvord told Fox in an email. Parents offended by school picture retouch trend: 'It's hurtful' 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z British satirical art anticipated not so much modern comedy as modern art; it's one thing to set Gillray against Gerald Scarfe, but a really imaginative exhibition would show his distorted figures alongside Picasso's Three Dancers. Rude Britannia at Tate Britain: no laughing matter 2010-06-15T13:50:00Z The rest of the pieces were worked on using secondhand photographs and some educated guesswork about how much the images distorted the originals. The Secret Stunt Doubles of the Art World 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z We have a distorted version of the Lonely Goatherd and we're cutting the strings. Cable girl: Gleeful 2010-06-08T09:24:00Z Calder’s sculptures tend to be joined at subtle angles, and missing those would have distorted the size of the models. The Secret Stunt Doubles of the Art World 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The former addresses female archetypes in film; the latter, distorted body image. Women, art and inequality in the gallery world: Sprüth Magers exhibition fuels an old debate 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The songs never felt distorted to fit the narrative, with Dean Buck conducting a substantial, agile, well-balanced orchestra. Review: LoftOpera Brings Mischief, and a Crowd, to Berlioz and Mahler 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Without a selfie stick, the subject’s face is almost inevitably distorted, seen too close and with unflattering proximity. At museums, selfie sticks poke holes in the idea of anything goes 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z What might be considered objective truth is utterly distorted. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Because these characters often don’t question their basic realities, I think that more distinctly reveals the ways in which their worlds, both speculative and realistic, are distorted for the reader. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z At her best, programmed beats, distorted guitars and synthetic instruments only sharpen the twang in her voice and the brashness of her attitude. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z If we are going to look back, we ought to take the opportunity to uncover more of the picture rather than allow the story to be further distorted. Woodstock, a Utopia? Not for Every Generation 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z There's a distorted sense of scale at work in both China's oppression of 1 million Uyghurs and Muslims and its censorship of an outspoken mascot. The rise and fall of Bing Dwen Dwen, Beijing's insidious Olympics mascot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z “We were getting a very distorted, very biased view of the facts, and we were hoping that the court would be impartial.” Dutch Court Rules Against Jewish Heirs on Claim for Kandinsky Work 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z And yet it is one of the least understood and distorted subjects in American history. Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Kent, the auteur of the spooky 2014 breakout hit “The Babadook,” struggled with the reactions as well as the media’s coverage, which she said distorted how Australians received the film. When Rape Onscreen Is Directed by a Woman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z That's more of a compliment than it might appear: it's Boyle's intention to make us rethink a character "distorted" by cinema, and "give him back his voice". Frankenstein: Man or monster? 2011-01-17T21:44:01Z Art may be a mirror of life, but it is often a badly distorted one in mainstream American cinema. Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014’s Top-Grossing Films 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z News from the coasts was always slow to arrive, often distorted by the time it reached us. Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z "Freak" uses a grungier distorted sound to showcase the band's longstanding philosophy of not caring what anyone else thinks of them. Review: Kiss' new album 'Monster' is scary good 2012-10-08T16:26:10Z There was barely a moment of relief from the sheer loudness, which distorted his opening set of three Liszt songs. Music Review: Brian Mulligan and Lisette Oropesa at the Morgan Library 2012-04-02T22:10:13Z When there are references, they are oblique or distorted, and they tend to follow Hwang’s story in inverting the original material, asking us who the Butterfly in the story really is. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z "Kama Sutra II" is on some druggy Neptunes vibes — futuristic R&B with distorted melodies and grainy textures. Download this: "Kama Sutra II" by Stevie and Sam 2011-07-28T13:33:07Z Mr. Hamm explained in an interview that “Black Mirror” aims a distorted lens at society to show “where it’s probably going, which is further — and maybe further than we want.” Jon Hamm Stars in ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Special 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z “On Treats, everything was pushed into the red,” says Miller, referring to the over-the-top volume level that produces a distorted sound, “but on this one, absolutely nothing is clipping.” Sleigh Bells Turn it Up on Reign of Terror 2012-02-23T16:59:55Z His art is a homegrown American Expressionism that transmutes bile, violence, and a sense of permanent crisis into frenzied, distorted images and hectic moods. What “Feud” Misses About Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and the Art of Movies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The number one comment on that opinion piece about women dealing with sexism is full of fallacies of thinking and distorted thinking patterns. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Marrying the sinuosity of contemporary dance to a fractured postmodernism, the McGregor style was distinguished by its rattlesnake speed, flickering detail, and extreme and often distorted physical articulation. Ballet's rock star 2011-01-02T00:03:05Z But something smears across the lower part of the painting, grisly and absurd: looked at from the correct angle, this distorted image reveals itself as a skull. A world of discovery is tainted by a dark shadow in Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors 2012-08-21T10:36:01Z Amid Prince’s vocals, keyboard chords, distorted lead guitar and a chatty bass guitar, Davis wedged in his recognizable chromatic sprints and tangent harmonies. Prince’s Vault Reveals a Brilliant Trove With ‘Sign O’ the Times’ 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z But even as the lyrics detail troubled thoughts, the music staves off self-pity with distorted tones, obstinate drumbeats and unhistrionic vocals. Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Bond denounces the patriarchy; Orlando is alarmed by the rise of nationalism, as President Trump’s likeness and voice are distorted until nearly unrecognizable; and a chorus of children warns “Our planet is in danger!” Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Perhaps his dual citizenship in Britain and the United States sensitized him early to the distorted attitudes toward King George’s forces. O’Shaughnessy’s ‘Men Who Lost America’ wins $50,000 George Washington Book Prize I don't think there's any way we can say the arts scene has been distorted by corporate money; what distorts the arts scene is not having any money. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z It gives artists powers to, among other things, prevent their names from being used on works that have been mutilated or distorted. Peter Doig Says He Didn’t Paint This. Now He Has to Prove It. 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z And they became almost proudly derivative, particularly of the big, distorted riffs and melodic phrasing of early Weezer. New Music: Music by the Very Best, Twin Shadow and Jeff the Brotherhood 2012-07-16T22:34:10Z “I loved that we were shining light on what is often a neglected or distorted area of study. And I liked being a leader.” Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir of love, loss, art and glorious food 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Behind her, the production deploys distorted bass lines, salvos of drums, bleary Mellotron notes and down-tuned guitars, all battering just under her voice, clawing at her. Soccer Mommy Summons a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Feelings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “I’m trapped inside the distorted mindset of a warrior,” Brennan admits. How men recover from war 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z These have been crumpled, and fixed in their squashed state with resin, so the text and partly representational imagery are distorted. In the galleries: The beauty of nature, in all its horror 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z By now the setup is familiar: a bunch of young men — boys, really — playing sweet, slightly distorted classic melodies. Music Review: Sweet, Dreamy Nibbles From Band With Teeth 2011-01-19T23:34:30Z Historical film footage of tap-dancers is often less than ideal: the images grainy or full of wavy lines, the sound muddy or distorted, the camera sliding all over the place. Dance Review: Syncopated Tap Rhythms Tattooed Onto the Floor 2011-07-10T21:39:12Z You also write that the Crusades were influenced by “a distorted Christian mythology.” The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z “Music can bond families together. It can repair families, marriages, and torn, distorted minds if you just stop and listen.” Exonerated Texas man finds solace in music 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Slow, booming and distorted, Salem's music combines thudding beats with droning chordscapes, an uneasy sound indebted to two uneasy bedfellows, the cough mixture-addled mixtapes of DJ Screw and the fuzz of guitar rock. This week's new live music 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Hired experts speculate and possible witnesses testify, their backs to the camera and their voices distorted; much of it is persuasive, but none of it is evidence. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'The Injustice Files: At the End of a Rope' 2012-02-21T19:02:23Z Connors’s bruising guitar and Clarke’s distorted bass drift into psych-rock territory — but even when the keyboardist lays back a bit, his steady chords remain the heartbeat of the ensemble. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Across this scene drifts Lynch's singing voice, high-pitched, largely distorted and croaking like a wizened fairground barker. David Lynch: The Big Dream – review 2013-07-11T20:30:00Z Those distorted guitar chords went on to rearrange the sonic architecture of the 1960s – but frontman Ray Davies's lyrics also heralded something new and profound. The Kinks: They really got me 2010-12-20T21:59:01Z Behind him drums and bass pumped in machinelike overdrive amid a gnarl of distorted guitar. Music Review: Iceage?s Punk Sound and Fury at Mercury Lounge - Review 2011-08-24T22:03:06Z The problem is that the race to the Oscars now so profoundly consumes everyone’s attention that it has distorted the perception of what’s actually available. Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z Stalwart British brass answered the rowdy distorted guitar in “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”; “She’s Leaving Home” is a stately waltz set to a harp and parlor orchestra that might have accompanied high tea. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Said breakbeat is swiftly buried beneath a thrilling mass of sound: grinding bass, under electronic noises that variously recall whistling, the clanking of bottles and horror-film strings distorted almost beyond recognition. Fuck Buttons: Slow Focus – review 2013-07-18T14:30:01Z And in the double-stopped opening of the Beethoven, his vibrato was so wide that it distorted the harmonies. Review: Orpheus’s Shifting Glimmers From Angled Glass 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z In some ways the Confederacy appears as a distorted mirror image of the North. Exhibition Review: ?Discovering the Civil War? at National Archives 2010-04-29T21:21:00Z Now there is a new generation of adults who remember Sept. 11, 2001, through the lens of their early youth — some details in sharp focus, others distorted and blurred. This was 9/11 if you were a kid 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z And, distorted and unleashed, it allows cancer cells to grow, to flourish, to adapt, to recover and to repair: to live at the cost of our living. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z Those stories serve as raw material, distorted over time and replayed on an incessant loop as Ms. May drains and fills in her choreographic terrain. Review: ‘Adult Documentary’ Is Dense and Difficult, Including the Carpet 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The artist’s pictures of adolescent women, some of them apparently self-portraits, used to feature scraped flesh and distorted features and proportions. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z He compares the flashing lights and distorted sounds he experienced to "Dante's Seventh Circle of Hell." Interview: 'I Am' filmmaker Tom Shadyac steps back to explore the big picture 2011-02-24T22:46:46Z The human wastage in The Charnel House, for instance, is so distorted it barely looks like a figurative image at all. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z He airily proposed that Bruckner had become “the dupe” of editors driven by “an all-consuming and very distorted Wagnerian perspective.” Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z “I realized years later what I was doing was the facades of buildings, distorted, because I rode my bike all over the city,” Gillen said. Ann Gillen: Sculpting in Plain Sight 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z That image was distorted to achieve an organic half-tone quality, turned upside-down, and finally layered several times with other textures. ArtsBeat Blog: Getting Noticed at the Fringe: 'The Disorientation of Butterflies' 2011-08-23T17:20:29Z Reign of Terror is expected to be similar, combining heavy metal riffs, pep rally chants, video game beats and dreamy vocals to create a distorted, messy sound that no teenager’s parents will enjoy. Music Monday: 15 Albums to Look Forward to in Early 2012 2012-01-09T15:30:27Z But now there’s a ghost Quinn, one severely diminished – one with distorted vision, slurred speech, mashed memory and klutzy motor skills. Homeland recap: season six, episode one – Fair Game 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Computerized techniques transformed and distorted acoustic sounds and blended recorded noises with in-the-moment playing by the quartet. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z And it devotes virtually no time to Williams’s childhood, beyond saying that “he was born into a hate-filled parental drama” and briefly outlining the facts that would be so creatively distorted by his plays. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Frequently, it is bearing either false, or severely distorted, witness. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z In a world beset by celebrity culture and distorted by the bulimic dynamics of social media, we need more than ever to pursue things precisely for themselves. Perspective | The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Many of them are human-sized and possessed of human speech, their behavior a distorted mirror held up to that of Homo sapiens. 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z In her paintings, collages, mixed media and installations, she challenges commonly held beliefs about history and identity, as she does with her distorted maps of the United States, many of which are on view. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Complaints about the naysayers who have “distorted angelic reality”? Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z Too often, young people hear a distorted view of other faith traditions. To be religiously illiterate in this world is foolish and dangerous. Tony Blair: 'To be religiously illiterate is foolish' 2010-08-02T21:00:00Z But the transcription here is not merely distorted. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The Electoral College has distorted American politics throughout the country’s history and, as Wegman shows, if it didn’t already exist, no one would think to invent it. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The author will wear disguises and have his voice distorted to protect his identity, reports the New York Times. SEALs Turned Authors: A Military Reading List 2012-08-24T15:46:58Z He claimed that the book was distorted, revealed family secrets and put his family in danger, to the extent that his two wives both fled the country to live in exile in Canada and Norway. Author ordered to pay damages to wife of Bookseller of Kabul 2010-07-27T09:43:00Z First up is the reveal of those two paintings by Cobain in Seattle, both showing distorted, Expressionistic figures that owe something to the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. A New Player in the Art-Fair World: Kurt Cobain. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Bandleader Elliot Bergman designs, builds and plays his own; electrified, amplified and distorted, they sound like grungy steel drums, simultaneously dark and bright, rhythmic and melodic. Nomo brings unorthodox, electrified Afrobeat to Tractor Tavern 2010-06-24T19:32:00Z Since I was listening exclusively to punk at the time, it was this voice, with its distorted screech – the vocal equivalent of scraping a plectrum down guitar strings – that caught my attention. My hero: Bj?rk 2011-07-22T21:55:12Z As is often true in Shakespeare’s comedies, the principal theme is reflected in distorted form by the activities of a parallel set of clownish types. | 'Love?s Labor?s Lost': ?Love?s Labor?s Lost? at Public Theater - Review 2011-11-01T02:01:01Z "And when you look at that history, you see that we've been distorted and dehumanized in every way possible. And dehumanization always leads to violence." "Disclosure" director Sam Feder on the trans TV experience: "People don't know what they don't know" 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare’s life. A Scholarly Analysis of Shakespeare’s Life That Reads Like a Detective Story 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The solution is a return to these purer times, before immigration distorted the populace and introduced conflicting visions of the good life. Why the 2016 election cycle could be the start of a totalitarian strain in U.S. politics 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The billionaire investor and oracular philosopher Warren Buffett echoes the point: My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z But the overall message I think would have been distorted. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z Through various electronic manipulations she has made it sound like a synthesizer, or a distorted electric guitar, or simply short blasts of noise. Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z Women drawing pictures of themselves that were so distorted. Table for Three: For Two Female News Anchors, Morning Has Broken 2013-08-23T16:13:40Z The important words all land on the right beat; the grammar is never distorted to squeeze over a melody. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Overheard During a short film of fuzzy street footage and distorted sound: "Bit mainstream for my tastes." I'll Be Your Mirror ? review 2011-07-30T23:06:05Z The results, however, have always remained remarkably consistent: that rush of strong, usually queasy emotion that comes from reading intense and ugly comments, that distorted sense of reality. Does reading the comments affect your judgment? 2013-03-04T21:00:00Z But I suspect it is because you are a teenager, and you think the way a teenager thinks — with a distorted view of your actions and their attached consequences. Ask Amy: Teen girl is ready to have a baby, but is her guy? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z When she does look at it, her reflection is distorted, like a mirror in a fun house. Four Takeaways from Rihanna’s New Lingerie Spectacle 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z “Our experience is that if people don’t see what is really happening inside prisons, the imagination fills the void and people get pretty distorted ideas,” said A.T. Will prisons ever open up to journalists? 2013-01-02T16:53:00Z The lyric is enigmatic enough to invite plenty of speculation — Is it about distorted body image? Taylor Swift, 30-Something, Is Revising Her Own Love Stories 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The images are distorted, incomplete portraits, yellowed as if from the distant past, and that elusiveness clashes marvelously with the palpable physicality and daunting weight of their support. What to see in L.A. galleries: Betye Saar, Tom Knechtel, Kay Sekimachi 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z There is an alternate reality to his portraits and scenes, with toothy grins, distorted physical proportions and backward text. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z “It was becoming alarmingly clear that the facts were distorted intentionally — by Rosenhan himself,” she writes in “The Great Pretender.” Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Barton's book, The Jefferson Lies, purports to "correct the distorted image of a once-beloved founding father", arguing that Jefferson was an orthodox Christian who did not believe that church and state should be separated. Glenn Beck set to publish book on Thomas Jefferson 2012-08-20T13:38:30Z As electronic dance music has scaled up from clubs to stadiums and outdoor events, big and simple effects have asserted their place: the bass drops of dubstep, the distorted hooks and chants of electro house. Review: Electric Zoo, a Menagerie Designed for Dancing 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z “The Clay Bird” was initially refused a censor’s certificate by the Bangladesh government on the grounds that it gave a distorted image of the madrasa system and might inflame passions in that majority Muslim country. Tareque Masud, Bangladeshi Director, Dies at 54 2011-08-24T22:26:52Z Jon Spencer sings, “I’m gonna break,” and the driver brakes; then a distorted guitar riff starts, commingling with the faint reverberations of a police chopper overhead. How Edgar Wright used music to transform the heist movie with ‘Baby Driver’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z But it turns out that ABC’s editing distorted what Walensky really said. A Rochelle Walensky interview sparked outrage. But the CDC says ABC omitted crucial context. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Within a few moments, Mr. Cooper — without makeup or prosthetics — will have slowly and painstakingly distorted his form and features beyond recognition. Bradley Cooper in 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Each arrangement was a gradual envelopment, absorbing and blending one instrument after another, cushioning percussive or distorted sounds amid sustained ones. Music Review: The National at Radio City Music Hall 2010-06-17T22:16:00Z To be saluted for posing as some version of oneself, however distorted that version may be. Death for a reality star, but reality TV goes on 2013-04-04T13:58:09Z “Saxophone Song” rode a frenzied uptempo swing, with a breakdown for distorted violin and wordless vocals; “Suspended in Gaffa,” originally a waltz girded in oompah, became a rush of metric shifts and chromatic frictions. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z “You spend time with them, you get to like them, so you could argue you’re getting a distorted view.” Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Earle, in full rasp showing the wear and tear of tobacco, screams, “I’m fixin’ to die / I reckon I’m going to hell,” over distorted guitar and fiddle. Steve Earle’s outlaw heart 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z But the distorted faces and bodies of Höch’s paintings and collages are also here, disrupting the mood. Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z One synthesizer mimicked, distorted and chased instrumental lines played by flute, clarinet and violin soloists; another provided digital samples; and a mixing board in the audience swirled sounds around the hall through loudspeakers. Music Review: International Contempory Ensemble at Rose Theater 2012-08-06T22:19:56Z In this country, however, the complete “Swan Lake” is invariably cheapened, distorted, trashed. Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The colors are bright and swirling; the audio is amplified and sometimes distorted. At SXSW, a Woman Who Had a Stroke Turns Director 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Across the three plays in which he appears, Shakespeare gives you not just a picture of how someone's mind can become distorted, but also how he's a master of duplicity. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z Claire has a lack of autonomy as a woman and all of her sexual experiences have been distorted. “Shame and despair turn out to be her superpower”: New ballet drama “Flesh and Bone” digs deep into incest, shame and the body in the elite dance world 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” has its strengths, but unlike it, Okoye’s deeply researched opera offers singers ample opportunity to engage with our national past while being liberated from the burden of embodying distorted stereotypes. Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The drums kick in, then the bass, then the guitar gets distorted . . . and then it all gets quiet. I'm not like them, but I can pretend (Obviously, this is an essay about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana) 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z From an angle — say someone else is holding the device and you are trying to see the picture from the side — the image appears distorted, if not a bit disorienting. 3-D Without Glasses? Try the New Nintendo Handheld Game 2010-06-15T19:48:00Z When I started listening, something interesting happened: I saw that my approach to religion had been distorted. Toxic atheism drives people apart 2012-10-21T16:00:00Z I don’t mind the way a few musicians play parts of the music onstage; I do mind the way instrumental lines are transposed up or down, dynamics are altered and ensembles are distorted. Review: Joffrey Ballet’s New ‘Nutcracker’ Leaves Some Tradition Behind 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Boys Noize — so austere that their video display used only red, black and white — dispensed buzzing, distorted riffs over dry drumbeats, as the chords that topped them jabbed with happy aggression. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z In the ungovernable transcendence of Bette Davis’s “pop-eyes,” he saw his own eyes, and his mother’s, both distorted and the same. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z She said a man approached her holding a “rather distorted” portrait of her, according to the statement. Marina Abramovic Attacked by Aspiring Artist in Florence 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z This is partly due to blatantly false information they received from Andrew Wakefield who published studies with distorted data that linked the MMR vaccine to autism — there is absolutely zero link. John Oliver debunks anti-vaxxers’ myths 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z And his customers’ stories — about their families and losses and fears — turn out to be a series of distorted but illuminating mirrors of Jimmy’s conflicted nature and troubled history. | 'Bluebird': He?ll Take You Anywhere You Want to Go 2011-08-23T02:01:00Z I was so used to driving and flying, the shape of the continent had been distorted. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z "Them Changes," the searing funk track from Los Angeles bassist Thundercat, features a crawling rhythm and a freaky bass line both dirty and distorted. Thundercat continues his run on 'The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam' 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Earlier that day, President Obama visited a Mosque in Baltimore to talk about religious freedom and to attempt to “correct the record on hugely distorted impression of Muslim Americans.” “Absolute zero on the f**ks-given scale”: Larry Wilmore applauds Obama’s mosque visit, mocking the “secret Muslim” myth won’t die 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z There is no better antidote for the box we’ve put ourselves in, in this age of distorted politics, than any of Dylan’s music of that early period. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z In some cases, he finds that cruel windbags like Thiel have distorted what were once good ideas. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In “The Misinformation Age,” two professors of logic break down the mechanics of false beliefs, focusing mainly on ideas held by scientists, to show how even the most well-intentioned beliefs become distorted and spread. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Only, he's a bad cypher, and the images are distorted; the alien, presented with the horrors of Earth, takes over his body and forces him to murder on its behalf. Rereading Stephen King 2012-07-17T11:00:32Z Yet there’s nothing tentative in the music, which saturates the frequency spectrum with ballooning bass lines, cloudlike synthesizer chords, hefty drum-machine accents and arena-scale distorted guitar. Playlist: New Music From Washed Out, Buddy Guy and Natalia Lafourcade 2013-08-09T18:39:31Z The more lenses through which one views the subject, the more distorted that subject becomes. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The video, obtained by The Sun newspaper, showed a masked person in a dark hoodie holding a crossbow and addressing the camera with a distorted voice, saying they wanted to “assassinate” Queen Elizabeth II. Police probe video linked to Windsor Castle Christmas breach 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Almost one entire tune consists of a testy, nipping conversation between Dustin Carlson’s distorted electric guitar and the rest of the band, punching back at him in big brassy chords. Best Jazz Albums of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Recorded speech, usually muffled or distorted beyond discernibility, served as binding material throughout most of the roughly half-hour piece. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros and Olivia Block Find the Unconventional 2013-09-15T22:03:58Z The best are the Monk ballads “Ugly Beauty” and “Crepuscule With Nellie”: slow and distorted, filthy and graceful. Playlist: Albums From Las Malas Amistades and Cooly G 2012-07-13T16:43:05Z The oil-on-canvas piece comprises tormented and distorted figures - human and animal - and represents the horrors of mechanized war. Picasso's "Guernica" undergoes medical check 2012-02-24T11:01:05Z At Penn State, the football staff operated under its own distorted code of honor. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z Purists might object that balance and volume are distorted, just as in the Met broadcasts it’s hard to discern the size of a singer’s voice. Critic?s Notebook: Orchestra Arrives On Big Screen 2011-01-10T23:01:21Z Where the history of the massacre wasn’t obscured, he found it distorted, deformed by conspiracy theories or attempts to both-sides it. A Skillful Narrative of Excavating the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Davis’s paintings were mostly figurative works depicting blacks in surreal landscapes, sometimes with their features distorted or smeared in a manner reminiscent of Francis Bacon. Noah Davis, California Figurative Artist and Founder of the Underground Museum, Dies at 32 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z But there IS a mindset that pervaded climate science over the years and distorted the thinking of many, in a manner that is regrettable, but understandable. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Harvey’s vocals rise out of a kind of bleary skiffle, with the strumming of Autoharp or distorted electric guitar above rudimentary drumbeats. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-14T23:38:13Z In small groups you are ushered below into fog and distorted guitar buzzing. Performance Art Review: Brian Rogers’s ‘Hot Box’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-09-20T21:32:33Z Full of twisted, distorted shapes and set to discordant orchestral music by Webern, it was part of the 1959 ballet “Episodes.” Drop a Fly in a Glass of Milk. What Do You Get? A Knotty Dance. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Marinated wedges of heirloom tomatoes have a pumped-up, distorted flavor, like tomatoes run through a wah-wah pedal. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Still, there’s plenty to be said for stories about tight-knit worlds that work by their own distorted rules, no matter how remote. How Broadway Imagines Africa 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z The result: stripped-down beats, meticulously layered synth patterns and distorted guitar. Fujiya & Miyagi combine electronica & rock 2012-01-26T21:22:04Z The head is also oddly distorted — flattened in such a way that it resembles a digitally manipulated three-dimensional photograph or a hologram. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z With their highly polished or intricately worked surfaces, his orbs all offer unexpected – and beautifully distorted – reflections of their settings and anything that happens in them. Walter de Maria's all-seeing eye 2011-02-20T21:59:00Z Groff is too sophisticated to regard the wife’s perspective as the “true” one; Mathilde’s experience is distorted by its own, different myths. ‘Fates and Furies’ review: A masterful tale of marriage and secrets 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Mein’s figurative sculpture “Le Songe,” or “The Dream,” represents a distorted squatting female form that appears to be metamorphosing into another organic mass, something of a modern-day Daphne. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Belgian Artists Making an Impact, at Home and Beyond 2011-10-13T11:00:13Z “Musique Non Stop” also supplies the main soundtrack; its mechanized sound and distorted voices, like its animation, are of a piece with Kraftwerk’s robot aesthetic. Nam June Paik at the Whitney: A Work of Dizzying Complexity 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Falling somewhere between gritty hardcore and distorted jungle, Rico Nasty’s “Intrusive” scrapes like metal through a meat grinder. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Matt Wolf’s film, w hich plays Monday on PBS’s “Independent Lens,” is about Stokes’ paranoid but visionary compulsion to create a mammoth VHS archive of history as depicted, filtered and distorted by media. New this week: Neil Young, ‘Miss Juneteenth,’ Padma Lakshmi 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The other is the album’s centerpiece: “The Beast,” whose lustful snarl translates into layers of distorted electric guitar. Laura Marling?s British Folk CD ?Creature I Don?t Know? 2011-09-04T04:25:17Z Visceral almost by definition, vernacular video has its own wildly spontaneous visual vocabulary — light smears, hyper kinetic movement, jolting angles, inadvertent “artifacting,” in which the image is distorted when a visible anomaly is introduced. ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Those people are not mere abstractions, faces on a TV screen whose personhood and life experiences are transmitted via the mass media…and often in a distorted and inaccurate way. Black America is so very tired of explaining and debating 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Then some turntable scratching ushers in a shift toward the synthetic: pulsing keyboard parts, voices chopped into samples, the guitar suddenly distorted and stuttering. Sonic Tomfoolery and Rhythmic Savvy From Systema Solar 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It creates a distorted idea of what it takes to attain success and what financial milestones are actually achievable if you are starting from zero or less. The New 30-Something 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Then, by 2016’s “Puberty 2,” distorted guitars and a precisely measured lyrical map that pinpointed desire and desolation became synonymous with her music. Review | Indie artist Mitski expresses songs with voice and legs 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The languid vibe of “Shame Shame” is a new register; the elastic rhythm of “Cloudspotter” allows more space for those distorted guitars to breathe. Foo Fighters Wanted to Rule Rock. 25 Years Later, They’re Still Roaring. 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z “Jonathan,” a lament about a trip to Coney Island with her ex-boyfriend, is backed only by a ghostly loop of a brushed snare, distorted and faded in the background. Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel...: Painful, Raw Parts That Form Something Beautiful 2012-06-18T16:24:15Z “These nights, I don’t know how I survive,” Ben Gibbard repeats on the first track, howling over a distorted gnarl of guitar. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z There’s a better “Time Is on My Side” and a more rabid “Last Time,” and there’s a good “Little Red Rooster” I didn’t know, with distorted slide-guitar trills. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z Landscapes are distorted, inverted, flipped and skewered with digital editing tricks, often rendered in unnatural formations and positioned as if defying gravity. Exclusive First Look at Bon Iver's Digital Deluxe Edition 2011-11-28T09:58:38Z “Divine” is a two-parter of longing and leering: trance arpeggios and a female voice are suddenly exchanged for distorted guitar as he cackles, “Can I lick your ice cream?” Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Photograph: Rory Carroll for the Guardian Government denials about any cancer-causing fallout unravelled in the 1980s, when lawsuits uncovered internal AEC reports showing scientists and bureaucrats downplayed and distorted evidence. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Suzan-Lori Parks’s jazz fugue of a play, which closes on Dec. 18, presents a haunting, sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The more distorted and grotesque the face in the freeze-frame, the better. Chrissy Teigen becomes a Golden Globes meme: Why we’re obsessed with women’s cryfaces 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z All well and good, but these consensus selections give a distorted view of the year in film. Simply the best of the rest 2010: films the critics forgot to mention 2011-01-10T16:45:33Z Her plain-spoken, self-effacing portraits of modern life are pleasantly distorted but never so messy that the lyrics get lost in the fray. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z But in Los Angeles and San Francisco, liberals are divided into hyperlocal factions that war over hyperlocal issues, and the meaning of “progressive” has become distorted. Where America’s Fight for Housing Is an All-Out War 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Some scholars have accused their colleagues of not sufficiently pushing back against white nationalists who have appropriated medieval symbolism and weaponized a highly distorted version of medieval history. Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z For the video – premiered here – rapidly edited images of Merz performing the song are intercut or laid over beautifully distorted shots of acrobats. New music: Merz – Goodbye My Chimera 2012-11-13T15:11:19Z But the truth is they are distorted mirrors of one another. 'SNL' Alum Ana Gasteyer Talks About Playing Shoshanna's Mom on 'Girls' 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z But after a quarter of a century the Troubles have become a way of life, and they've shaped and distorted the three generations of the McVeigh family who share the same council house. Shadow Dancer – review 2012-08-25T23:08:02Z The overall arc and momentum sometimes felt distorted, but Ms. Lim’s intellectual analysis and emotional engagement resulted in fresh, vigorous interpretations. Music Review: H J Lim Performs Piano Sonatas at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z Like Japan's Guitar Wolf, the Jim Jones Revue imagine that rock'n'roll didn't really need to evolve after 1956; it just needed to get much, much louder, and wildly more distorted. The Jim Jones Revue: Burning Your House Down 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z In “Black Skinhead” he snarls, “I’ve been a menace for the longest/But I ain’t finished, I’m devoted,” over a track that switches between a blunt glam-rock drumbeat and a distorted synthesizer line. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z Bach’s chorale prelude is picked apart, distorted and transformed in a series of dissonant gestures that, now heated, now wispy, create an irresistible smoky turbulence. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Using the computer program Max/MSP he distorted and dispersed digital samples of traditional Asian music in a manner meant to suggest psychedelically enhanced perception. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z Decisions about saving money, for instance, are heavily distorted by impatience, which helps explain why so many struggle in retirement. Humans Are Impetuous and Shortsighted. Can We Change? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Their fifth album Vivos is swarmed by distorted guitars, vocal effects and, of course, a great set of songs. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z It probably doesn’t help that the mass media is also clogged with narratives that portray mothers in profoundly distorted ways, as tireless martyrs or negligent monsters, as Carol Bradys or Joan Crawfords. I don’t have to be a perfect dad: The gift I’m giving myself this Father’s Day 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Not until close to minute four does a quivering, distorted guitar enter, hesitantly at first. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Critics also say Miranda’s portrait of Burr is horribly distorted and argue that Hamilton’s sister-in-law, Angelica Schuyler, was in no way a feminist, as she is portrayed in the musical. Historians irked by musical ‘Hamilton’ escalate their duel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z As his subjects moved, the water distorted the images. Summertime in America, Beneath the Surface 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Together, they weave gentle song lyrics and artfully distorted figures into surreal vignettes on the stubbornness of pessimism. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z For a few minutes, the guitar and vocals were barely distorted. Everything about veteran indie-rock group Low is emotionally constrained 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Rother, using a laptop for electronic loops and often giving his guitar a distorted edge, rarely played conventional lead guitar lines; they were more like razor-edged planes of sustained sound, slicing across the beat. Music Review: Michael Rother and Hermeto Pascoal at Damrosch Park 2010-08-08T22:13:00Z He puts a big magnet on top of a television, and the picture is distorted into an abstract form that looks like a Brancusi or an Arp. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z “Object of Terror” is more music of distorted surfaces. L.A. Phil's Reykjavík Festival begins with music of the Earth and singing in teacups 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Like Alice down the rabbit hole, my world had distorted and warped. I lived “Orange Is the New Black” — now I’m going to watch it 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z The senators believed that the intelligence assessment Clapper was quoting flagrantly distorted what the Senate report had said, predicting dire consequences from the release of information that wasn’t even in the report. ‘The Report’ and the Untold Story of a Senate-C.I.A. Conflict 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z In the medieval “Saint of the Foxes” the crow recognizes a distorted memory of his old friend, the priestess Fox Cap. A book-length historical fantasy about a crow? It’s not as birdbrained as that sounds. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Computers stretched and distorted each pavilion and courtyard to capture shade from the south and prevailing breezes from the north. Zaha Hadid’s Desert Think Tank: Environmental Beauty and Efficiency 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The best works are two distorted heads — made of red soil, or black paper pulp embedded with rose quartz or metal beads. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z That would be his riff-based arrangements, adapted from brass band protocols and often, as on “Suburbia,” featuring blasts of distorted guitar. Critics? Choice: New Music From Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson 2010-04-18T23:21:00Z Trained as an anthropologist, as well as an artist, Sircar is interested in how ideas arise, spread and are distorted. In the galleries: Paintings that are both ephemeral and vivid 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Her earlier hits stuck fast to an economical formula of big choruses and distorted guitars: you would be hard-pushed to argue that Party in the USA et al weren't efficient examples of trainer-bra powerpop. Miley Cyrus: Can't Be Tamed 2010-06-24T14:31:00Z Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z Russell’s cello is often amplified, and occasionally moves into distorted timbres that are easy, now, to hear as forerunners of 1990s indie rock. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z With an acrid, lightly distorted sound and a habit of subtly stirring psychedelia and country rock into his dexterous improvising, Scofield has been one of jazz’s leading guitarists since the 1970s. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Saxophones squawk, guitar solos lunge; even the drums sound distorted. Album review: Nick Waterhouse, 'Time's All Gone' 2012-05-03T22:45:00Z Her voice is raspily matter-of-fact and her guitar delivers a blunt, distorted riff — grunge with a twang — as bass and drums thump along. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Vidal and Buckley were authentically important and interesting writers and thinkers, but sitting under the lights they were, above all, celebrities, signifiers of their own distorted individuality. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In 1967 he released the acclaimed album "Are You Experienced?" and soon was touring internationally, gaining fame for his innovative, heavily distorted guitar style. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z There's history, noir, drugs, surrealism, politics, sex, literature, crime, Vonnegutian science fiction and a dark, distorted Svejkish air about the protagonist.For all its fine aspects, I read it at one remove. Tips, links and suggestions: Tell us about the books you are reading today 2013-01-08T15:28:03Z The figures’ primitive, angular proportions are wildly distorted, echoing ancient Iberian sculptures Picasso had seen at the Louvre, and the two women on the right have faces reflective of African masks that the artist admired. Review | How Picasso’s she-devils changed art forever 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Opening track Harm in Change thrillingly layers clean piano, distorted keyboards, crisp percussive snaps, low-end drum rolls, inarticulate female moans and a vocal that grows more urgent by the minute. Toro y Moi: Anything in Return – review 2013-01-17T22:14:02Z Even that imaginary power distorted his perspective, and made him part of the experiment. Inside “The Stanford Prison Experiment”: Six days in a fake prison, and how they changed the world 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Like “Bleach,” it featured songs that alternated between bludgeoning, distorted guitars and sweet, catchy melodies. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Scott helped produce the determinedly sloppy “Woo,” with dark, distorted production akin to his hit “Antidote.” Review: Rihanna, Blissfully Adrift, Juggles Styles on ‘Anti’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But the study's lead author, Vytenis Babrauskas, said in an interview that the industry has grossly distorted his findings and that the amount of retardants used in household furniture doesn't work. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z It’s a noisy, low-fi stomp with just about everything distorted, vocals included, and it’s equally rowdy and desperate. SZA and Phoebe Bridgers’s Team-Up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z “Alternative Power to the People” is an aggressive, pseudo-instrumental, with vocals more like oddly distorted grunts. The Dandy Warhols' This Machine: The Indie Rockers Go Goth 2012-04-25T16:00:53Z However, the young Ms. Green is more than just a nostalgic, flannel-era fabulist; her singsong hooks are conduits to lyrics of shrewd self-awareness and insouciant honesty, and her distorted guitars have palpable strength. Pop & Rock Listings for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The bloody consequences of distorted thinking are portrayed vividly, with surgical veracity. ‘Hypochondriac’ Review: A Mother of All Breakdowns 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Has the game’s popularity, and the media attention and money that it attracted and that have in turned further fueled that popularity, irreversibly distorted the purity of the original game? Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z Painstakingly precise in its detail, the image is also subtly distorted, as if seeing the building through a fish-eye lens. Z. Vanessa Helder: a Northwest artist rediscovered at Tacoma Art Museum 2013-09-08T14:16:08Z What thin creations these characters are — and how distorted they are by the stilted prose and characterizations. A Mother and Son, Fleeing for Their Lives Over Treacherous Terrain 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z At first it’s tentative — chords and pauses, the clatter of a rainstick — but other, more ominous sounds crowd in: distorted guitar, insistent drums, rumbly low arpeggios. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z I was like, "I love your image, but I want this really dirty, distorted version." The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z But the beds, tables and lamps are eerily unreal, and the projections are partly distorted, as if to indicate gaps in youthful memory. Review | In the galleries: Printmakers’ works are anything but two-dimensional 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “I used nice, distorted sounds to make it very dramatic, so I made the strings sound huge and the bass line very large,” he said. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z Lackluster compounds are evaluated in ways guaranteed to make them look good, Goldacre writes, then prettied up even further with distorted claims of efficacy. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z “Farewell, OK” opens the album with Costello shouting through a distorted rockabilly boogie. Elvis Costello & the Imposters Are Still Blasting Away 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z They might be idols of a primal cult, recalling the sex workers depicted in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon with their primitive masks and distorted, angular bodies. Artist of the week 120: Thomas Houseago 2011-01-05T12:52:15Z What are the most garishly distorted or misinterpreted study or report? Don’t panic, bacon lovers: Why the new report on cancer and processed meats doesn’t mean a total pork ban 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The telling of Southern history through food, they argued, simplifies history in a way that creates a distorted, unrealistically happy view of the region, without enough academic rigor. A Powerful, and Provocative, Voice for Southern Food 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z But sometimes what we hear has been distorted. A wave of recent TV series focus on child deaths. Is it all too morbid — or a sign of our times? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The actors on the right side of the frame are distorted and slightly soft. The All-Stars of ‘Star Wars’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Louisahhh's louche vocal is set off by some incredibly satisfying counterpoint melodies, distorted horns going off like sirens and a repeated descent into a deep and compulsive groove. F&M playlist 2011-08-25T20:30:00Z The brand's marketing tactics played on women's insecurities and ultimately, distorted one's idea of healthy body image. The 7 most shocking Victoria's Secret revelations from Hulu's "Angels and Demons" docuseries 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Nobody called Argo Ben Affleck’s vanity project, even though he distorted real-life political history to make his own character look more heroic. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Another problem with our reluctance to think about or analyse failure – whether our own or other people's – is that it leads to an utterly distorted picture of the causes of success. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z And how they put it together and edit it, and what you see is a little distorted because people would say things like where's the treatment? Dr. Drew is worried about the "impact of pornography" and reveals his COVID-19 fears 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Those along a chain of command, who might have stepped in to prevent it, were both intimidated by its scope and already accustomed to distorted truth and micromanaged messages. Review | ‘The Loudest Voice’ really sticks it to Roger Ailes, who is still dead and doesn’t care what anyone thinks 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z In “House of Glass,” the band revs up to barbed, dissonant punk as the deadpan singer notes that he’s just “Another mirrored image/Corrupted and distorted.” Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z I thought that would create an interesting distorted reality that would tell my audience right from the start that they’re in a different world with different laws from a geopolitical point of view. Denis Villeneuve Proved to Us He Loves 'Blade Runner' More Than Anybody 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z I wanted to look at a mirror that had a very distorted view.” Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Because it’s the most extreme, distorted view of a person, of a personality, of a situation. “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z It was a cut above most others I have seen, mostly because it wasn't trying to sell some distorted, sentimental vision of a British and Olympic ideal. TV review: Immortal? A Horizon Guide to Ageing; Knockout Scousers: True Stories; Line of Duty 2012-07-17T23:45:01Z “My mind is a little mentally distorted right now,” she said in voice as creaky as a haunted-house staircase. Bella Thorne, the Ex-Disney Star, Chillaxes With Yarn 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z In this collection, the singing begins immediately, with Carl Adamshick, who writes, “A low, quiet music is playing — / distorted trumpet, torn bass line,/ white windows.” ‘Poem-a-Day’ review: Your guide to befriending poetry in 2016 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The defense case continued on Friday with testimony from Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine and well-known expert on memory who testified that memories could be distorted over time. Harvey Weinstein rape trial appears headed for early conclusion 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The felt sheets start as rectangles, but the cutouts leave them distorted and fragile, as if the only way to mark a surface were to partly destroy it. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Through the distorted lens of our corporate media, we possess only a distorted view of what the country is really like now. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z Mr. Christenson said that reality TV is like “a fun-house mirror”: an image of us as a society, but one that is distorted. Watch What Happens When Real Housewives Don’t Wear Masks 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Abramson’s stories are fractured and distorted, and all the more intriguing for that. Review | In the galleries: An ambitious collage of works by regional photographers 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z As Campbell pours out a distorted and urgent guitar line and bassist Ron Blair guides the rhythm, the singer moves into his chorus: "I've got a few of my own," he confesses. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The "Mona Lisa" of Moravia, the earliest known sculpted head, has the eeriest of faces, distorted, poignantly realistic. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z It's a discussion that, within the publishing industry at least, tends to be distorted by that deeply conservative question: "How do we all keep making a living from this thing?" China Miéville was the star turn at the Edinburgh International Book festival 2012-08-24T14:52:58Z The message was simultaneously terror and power, harshness and grandeur: “The palace of despair,” she called it in the even more aggressively distorted “Panoptikon,” released on her self-titled second album in 1984. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z As he did in “Bird Box,” Malerman focuses on the limitations and psychological pressures of lives distorted by the constant threat of a violent end. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The email obtained by The Morning Call is the second to surface from McQueary in which he claims the facts of his involvement are distorted. McQueary on alleged rape: 'I did stop it' 2011-11-15T21:09:00Z Sometimes there are chords, but Mr. Hince often plays just single notes or a guitar so distorted it registers more as texture than as harmony. Music Review: Two Musicians at One With the Basics 2011-08-09T22:22:16Z Always committed to exploring the possibilities of his instrument, he even uses a wah-wah pedal to create a gloriously distorted effect. Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-26T17:44:00Z The show of ugly children, distorted landscapes and other oddities, along with a book with the same title, were the brainchild of the artist Jim Shaw, a longtime collector of the horribly wonderful. Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame) 2010-09-02T22:25:00Z Where the Bolshoi’s influence was most apparent was the frenzy that distorted his line in his final series of jumps. The Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Giselle’ in Washington 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The banjo is gone and electric guitars reign, as announced in the album’s first moments with the keening, distorted solo that opens “Tompkins Square Park.” Review: Mumford & Sons Lose the Twang in ‘Wilder Mind’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z PK14 come across as more Brooklyn than Beijing, their sound a melange of distorted guitars, tortured vocals and driving drums, heavy and dissonant. China in your hand: the lowdown on Chinese pop 2012-12-25T22:20:21Z Single Peach Blossom recalls the buoyancy of Mr E's Beautiful Blues, as Everett takes time to smell the flowers atop a flatulently distorted guitar riff. Eels: Wonderful, Glorious – review 2013-02-03T00:05:22Z The second-largest picture, 1982’s “Pearls and Lace,” appears looser, but that is because it depicts shapes and reflections distorted by water. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Lincoln, in Booth's distorted vision, was a money-grubbing Yankee hostile to the gracious suavities of the gallant south. Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence by Michael Newton – review 2012-11-18T00:05:09Z But two new indie horror films are generating buzz too, even though they were made for next to nothing and are driven by distorted audio, disorienting cuts and other defiantly experimentalist techniques. Two Experimental Horror Directors Discuss the Thoughts Behind the Frights 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The études, some fast and virtuosic, others spare and introspective, unfolded to beautiful and haunting effect in a haze of pitch-bending, echoes, distorted rhythms and eerie timbres. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z In some places, these appear like the fluttering horizontal lines produced by an old television tube, as if we are getting a distorted picture beamed over fickle airwaves. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self,” she added. New York Fashion Week: Allison Williams Is Standing Out From the New Girls at Fashion Week 2012-09-15T01:25:39Z She peers at a distorted fun-house image of herself in a hand mirror and thinks, “I look like a 50 yr. old businessman!” and “How many calories in a cheese enchilada?” Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Pioneering Comics Memoirist, Dies at 74 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Cox's voice is distorted and roughened throughout: it's paisley pop played through a garage rock-filter. Deerhunter: Monomania – review 2013-05-09T21:25:01Z It’s impossible to tarry with these spirits — some comic, some tragic, all grotesquely distorted — without reflecting on the pathetic concerns, desires or offenses that each of us allows to eclipse our time on Earth. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z And 14 years as a "reality" star has completed distorted his sense of humanity and the real world. Kimmel, Covfefe, ‘Wonder Woman’: Washington’s Views on Pop Culture in 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z In Max Payne 3, Health's distorted guitar feedback and pummelling drums swell to savage crescendos as soon as any shootout starts, like some bloody post-punk opera. Are video game soundtracks the new concept albums? 2012-05-28T13:56:00Z Gianni Versace’s family isn’t exactly thrilled with this depiction of his lavish lifestyle and eventual murder on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion: “distorted and bogus,” they said in a statement. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘American Crime Story’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The picturesque world they inhabit is a distorted mirror of our own, where people routinely defy gravity and have odd physical characteristics. ‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ Review: Stealing Inspiration From Great Art 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z “It’s a backlash to the way fashion has distorted human beings, you know, images with no pores, no body fat and rib cages being removed.” A Party Crawl in the Name of Art 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z On the night I went the claques were so fervent that verdicts were distorted. Back to the Apollo, Uptown?s Showbiz Incubator 2011-02-07T15:09:18Z There is as much affection for found totems of saccharine girlhood as there is anger or rejection, as much unsatisfied yearning in her distorted images of conventional femininity as there is trauma or shock. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z But those faces are also distorted and squished into bubbles that float over monochromatic Chinese landscapes. Female Factor: Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene 2011-01-20T12:30:05Z On Friday, jurors heard from Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine and well-known expert on memory who testified that memories could be distorted over time. Weinstein accuser's agent expected to testify in New York rape trial 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The staging, in particular, of the drag shadow-play the family puts on for Isaac conveys keenly the distorted role-playing that substitutes here for the bedrock comforts of home, such as dependability and love. Review | Taylor Mac’s play ‘Hir’ shows an America that’s groping in the dark for its moral identity 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Because I began writing from this distorted place, the first 5,000 words kind of gushed out; it was almost like automatic writing. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Tossing and Turning in ‘Insomnia’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z When Mr. Scott takes a solo, his trumpet starts at a whisper and grows more distorted. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Continues to Break New Ground 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The former supplies the album's most thrilling moment – a sudden drop after a slow build, into massively distorted metallic guitars – a moment so good you suspect the entire song was constructed to deliver it. Foals: Holy Fire – review 2013-02-07T15:30:01Z It’s three-chord rock sung with cynical conviction and barricaded with layer upon layer of distorted guitars and additional noise, like the sizzling whistle that opens the track and squeals throughout. The Playlist: Taylor Swift and the Jesus and Mary Chain Offer Different Shades of Teases 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Classics on arrival, they were turbid and distorted records that didn’t use too many lyrics and didn’t much care about you hearing the ones they did. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z If the Bible was distorted to justify African enslavement, which I assume you reject, do you ever question the limits of scriptural interpretations to understand the state of affairs today? "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z White said the designers pushed Optimus' face as closely as possible into riders' perspectives without the robot general's noggin appearing blurry or distorted. 'Transformers' roll out in Universal Studios ride 2012-05-21T15:10:09Z Kanye West shares the production credits on “Illuminati” and leaves his imprint with distorted vocal effects, a hard kick drum and a rubbery bass line. 6 Songs Offer Preview of ‘Rebel Heart’ Album 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z This is a crowded party of gestures with twitches, kicks and distorted torsos. Dance Review: Slapped, Stamped and Delivered 2011-02-23T23:12:03Z In “Arcane,” the disfigured Silco is the kind of tortured soul whose distorted dreams become lifelong obsessions — not unlike the Batman villain Two-Face, for example. ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Beats and the Universe of ‘Dune’: What ‘Arcane’ Is Made of 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The lasers were tightly coordinated with the music, with shapes expanding on each wallop; distorted tones got dotted lines, clearer tones got straight ones. Music Review: The Haxan Cloak and Robert Henke in Red Bull Festival 2014-05-12T14:44:09Z All these elements are distorted, possibly parodied, but also intensified. Last Chance: Philippe Halsman?s Jumpers at Laurence Miller 2010-05-23T23:30:00Z Waters, Wolf and most of the Chess Records roster played rough, distorted sounds. B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z There was a pizza delivery and a declaration that “We made history” by mass retweeting a selfie – a somewhat distorted view of what constitutes an historic event. Oscar’s 10 most memorable moments 2014-03-03T13:30:00Z For one thing, composers from outside the field often have a distorted understanding of what opera actually is. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z The dolls’ faces were distorted for maximum “uncanny valley” effect. 'The Leftovers' Recap: In the Finale, a Showdown 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z "Field" featured electric guitar played ragged and distorted, as a disarmingly effective segue between pulsing techno and a beat borrowed from southern American hip hop. SXSW 2011 post #11: Mount Kimbie, Sharon Van Etten, Odd Future 2011-03-20T22:46:03Z Her increasingly distraught efforts to speak gradually infect the company, who disintegrate into a violent tangle of distorted movements and cries. Tibetan choreography master seeks the unknown in others 2010-05-20T06:36:00Z Ohr crumpled and contorted his clay into beautifully distorted forms and slathered them with bold glazes. A George Ohr Vase Is on the Block 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “It’s such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be,” she said. Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley: social media is bad for mental health 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Already in the pipeline before the pandemic, many of these novels may have struck at the right moment, given a boost by a widespread distorted perception of time. Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z At work you will become more motivated, assertive and efficient via a mixture of desperation, exhaustion and a distorted perspective on what you can achieve. Having a baby will simplify your life 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Their distorted, synthy compositions carry a strong emotional undertow, not least because the vocals are so reminiscent of the Cure's Robert Smith. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z In too many pictures from the region, they are dim figures in the background, unlit to the point of being shadows, their faces blank or distorted. The Forgotten Mountains of Darfur 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z In these distorted reflections we see Surrealism as an all-pervasive approach to artistic freedom, where Europe has no monopoly on your desires. Getting a Grip on Unreality 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z We have distorted our history to fit the Myth of the Lost Cause and it is thishistory which explains our obsession with the Civil War. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z A minute later, grunge-style, tremolo turns to distorted strum and the beat kicks harder. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z What is worse, the foreshortening of the pointing arm has also been distorted. Germaine Greer: The debate over Mona Lisa's identity 2011-02-20T22:30:00Z While some teachers accused of misconduct had remained on the job, the ad distorted several aspects of the emotional issue. Campbell Brown goes after teacher tenure in transition from journalist to advocate Ms. Wasner harmonizes with herself and brings in auxiliary guitars, intricate or distorted; the keyboards join the counterpoint. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z The photo is then distorted, stretching or contracting like a digital fun-house mirror. Hands-On Math Lessons (No Homework Required) 2013-08-29T21:33:42Z "It is a mirror which reflects back, more or less distorted, that view of the past which the onlooker takes there," Chippindale says. Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z Moore despaired of Watchmen’s effect on the comics industry, which he described as “like being in a hall of mirrors in a funfair, where you can only see ugly, distorted reflections of yourself”. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z This entertaining little show expands on the Surrealists’ diversion, rustling up other examples of distorted or disjointed figuration from MoMA’s permanent collection. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z Neel liked, she said, the “plasticity” of pregnant women’s bodies, conjuring both her own distorted forms and her endless demonstrations of oil paint’s malleability. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Swollen, distorted, painted in bruised mauves and imprisoned in triptychs, the figures in Francis Bacon’s art are among the indelible images of the 20th century. Review | Francis Bacon was an elusive figure. A new biography presents novel details of his iconoclastic existence. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z In the excerpts from Ligeti's Requiem, Lubman led members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale with skill and fervor, but the voices sounded distorted at peak level, almost drowning out the instruments. The stars, a 'Space Odyssey' and the Hollywood Bowl in cosmic harmony 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z At times distorted guitars made way for resonant ones for a few pensive moments. Music Review: Sleigh Bells? ?Reign of Terror? Tour at Terminal 5 2012-02-19T21:34:52Z But some days, my sense of smell is distorted and everything in my orbit smells wrong — of day-old cigarette stubs, heavy and chemical. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Did a simple scale suddenly leap in the middle so that natural order was convoluted and distorted? My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z It turned out that elephant roars and lion growls, when distorted properly, could heighten tension and draw out emotion in such scenes. Lion roars and a busted grape: How editors and mixers built the sounds of this year’s Oscar movies 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z These days, many people think the press was against the war and distorted the coverage — that simply wasn’t true out in the field. WATCH: Veteran ABC cameraman reflects on his decade spent documenting Vietnam War 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But the news in this production is the way iconoclastic Spanish director Bieito has reinterpreted - some would say distorted - the story of a noble wife risking her life to save her unjustly imprisoned husband. Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z The next tune, “I Had Me a Girl,” which was produced by the rock and hip-hop maven Rick Rubin, is built around Mr. Williams’s wailing vocal, a distorted electric guitar and pounding drums. From the Civil Wars, an Aptly Named Album 2013-08-02T19:03:21Z He toys with sparseness, then a new pitched percussion chord leads to a subtle electric guitar declaration; it’s lightly distorted, yet not driven in an overly obvious way. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z What would you say to critics who might argue that it’s stacking the deck in an argument like this to decide when a religion’s beliefs are being “distorted” and when they’re not? The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The most effective remedy would be to show Bully in class, so it could provide a clear mirror of distorted values to young victimizers and their victims alike. Bully: A Punishing Movie Your Kids Must See 2012-03-29T10:45:20Z “You always think things don’t do justice to you until you realize that maybe your own image of yourself is a little bit distorted compared to what the world sees,” he says. How an artist captured Fauci’s career in a genre-defying new portrait 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z More troublesome, Professor Ross and others agree, is when small infractions become big infractions; when context gets lost and facts are distorted, or it becomes difficult to discern between the two. What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Having been both bolstered and confined by religion and custom under the old order, the oldest human institution was transformed, distorted and sometimes destroyed by what followed. Behind closed doors 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z One overlong passage saw Ms. Anderson’s speaking voice distorted and transformed into the unctuous bass of a cartoon priest. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Johns took this seemingly anguished pose and amplified, fractured and distorted it by adding various patterns and combining the image with its reverse. Jasper Johns Stays Divinely Busy 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The panes were thick, the glass distorted in several places. Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on Conjuring ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z On occasion, Mr. Gold’s interpretation takes on the vicious aspect of a nightmare in which you see your past at its distorted worst. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Yes, tango is inherently dramatic and scintillatingly musical, but its whole emphasis can be distorted by rendering it theatrical or exhibitionistic. Dance Review: Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión Dance Tango 2013-08-12T21:40:10Z Then there are the acoustics of the cube, where music can sound muddy and distorted. Scene/Seen: Prague: What's New in the Cube 2011-01-07T13:00:08Z The fantastic Diane Young offers manic, distorted drum rolls, hiccupping rock'n'roll vocals subjected to the kind of electronic manipulation familiar from chopped-and-screwed hip-hop, bursts of filthy guitar. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City – review 2013-05-09T14:30:01Z If Christian conservatives ran things here, our society would be hobbled and distorted and modern freedoms denied. A gloriously crude topless 'jihad' from a Femen activist 2013-04-05T15:18:20Z There are so many bad examples of multicam sitcoms and I get why people’s image of it is a bit distorted or negative. Lil Rel Howery and Jerrod Carmichael Think You’re Wrong About Multicamera Sitcoms 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Everyone knew that they, the Soviet people, lived in a veritable funhouse of a giant isolated world unto itself, in the parallel reality of that endless hall of crazily distorted mirrors. Life Under Alternative Facts 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Within these series, the coders looked for what the study finds to be distorted depictions of crime and justice with regard to race, gender. Are crime shows slowing justice reform? Here's the insidious storytelling bias miseducating viewers 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z For the opening number, I'll Be Lightning, he leaps from guitar to drums to piano, sampling sequences of notes and looping them through his effects pedal to craft a distorted one-man symphony. Liam Finn ? review 2011-07-22T17:42:08Z "People who practice racism are bereft, there is something distorted about the psyche." How racism found my son on Fortnite 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Sontag was alert to the ways reality can be distorted — in photographs, for example, or with metaphorical language, falsifications that numb our responses. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z In Hermesdorf's hands, ordinary movement is distorted into a kind of prowess. Velocity Dance: A mix of rap, Cyndi Lauper, daring ? and a need for tightening 2011-10-29T17:29:03Z The facts were so distorted that it frightened HBO into making that hasty decision. A Minute With: Dustin Hoffman on his directing debut 2013-01-23T10:04:28Z Afropunk’s work on “Black Messiah” often went until 4 a.m., including time spent deciphering the dense, distorted vocals for a lyric booklet. D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ Was Released in a Rush 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z That is the consequence of works that objectify the body, emphasizing distorted shapes and fragmentation over individual interpretation. Boston Ballet performs ‘Bella Figura’ at the Kennedy Center Rather than trumpet his achievements, Blake used the media attention to critique the very idea of the gifted child, arguing that the label distorted public understanding of which human attributes were valuable. From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Entering his workroom, he casually walked over distorted three-dimensional canvases of seascapes strewn across the floor. Marc Quinn’s ‘The Toxic Sublime’ Shows a Provocateur and Social Observer 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Things get sillier in the activity wing, where we pose for a digital camera that takes purposely distorted photos and practice Leonardo’s famous mirror writing technique. Leonardo’s spirit lives on in his hometown of Vinci, Italy 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But football hasn’t just distorted our academic priorities. College football’s plantation problem: The violent game — and billion-dollar industry — where black kids take all the risk for none of the profit 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The ear is drawn to the immediate, and focus on the incremental shifts between the larger blocks is distorted. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z His hit songs included the use of auto-tune, which synthesized and distorted his voice for a futuristic sound that led him to the top of the charts. T-Pain Singing Without Auto-Tune Is the Most Confusing Thing You’ll Hear Today 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Online communication hasn’t really democratized our discourse in a neutral way–it’s distorted our discourse in favor of drama and conflict. The scifi fans are alright: I saw the future at the Hugo Awards — and it will never belong to the toxic right-wing trolls 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z And the explanation that results is marked by an appalling minimization of the most dangerous administration in our lifetimes and a highly distorted portrait of Trump supporters as victims. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The beautiful and brutal blend of distorted guitars and strings — at times combative and others, cooperative — is the perfect complement for the highs, lows, and mixed emotions of the lyrics. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The man had been dead for an hour and 40 minutes, and he had taken a shot to the head, so the face was swollen and distorted. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z The announcement portends a year filled with distorted buzz — and sporting events jamming a new anthem called “Play Ball.” AC/DC unveils 'Rock or Bust,' announces Malcolm Young's departure 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z As soon as one starts doing that, history is distorted, and the capacity for self-criticism stunted. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Heller called the cases “a distorted overreaction pandering to the current hypersensitive climate where innocent commonplace gestures are now misperceived and mischaracterized as offensive.” Cuba Gooding Jr. Is Accused of Unwanted Sexual Touching by 14 Women 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z |
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